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(b Paris, 17 July 1797; d Paris, 4 Nov. 1856). French painter, one of the leading pupils of Gros. He achieved European fame with his melodramatic, Hollywoodesque history scenes, engravings of which hung in thousands of homes.
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Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)