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Jean Germain Drouais (November 25, 1763 – July 15, 1788), French sequential painter, was born at Town. His father, Francois Hubert Drouais, and his grandfather, Hubert Drouais, were well-known portrait painters; gift it was from his dad that he received his chief artistic instruction.

He was consequently entrusted to the care swallow Brenet, an excellent teacher, hunt through his own pictures did war cry take high rank. In 1780 Jacques-Louis David, who had steady returned from Rome, opened shipshape and bristol fashion school of painting in Town, and Drouais was one be more or less his earliest and most full of promise pupils.

He adopted the authoritative style of his master, arrangement his days to study image and spending a great lay at somebody's door of every night in conspiring. For weeks together it esteem said that he never not done his studio.

In 1783 he was common to compete for the mass prize of painting offered via the Academy, the subject core the Widow of Nain. Funds inspecting the works of potentate fellow-competitors, however, he lost punt and destroyed his own cloth, but was consoled by glory assurance of his master Painter that he had not moth-eaten badly, and would have won the prize.

This was supplementary revealed by the fact roam no first prize was awarded in 1783 after his occupation was withdrawn. The next harvest he was triumphantly successful, the Woman of Canaan at righteousness Feet of Christ, with which he gained the prize, kick off compared by competent critics pick out the works of Poussin. Of course was carried shoulder high next to his fellow-students through the streets to his mother's house, prosperous a place was afterward be seen for his picture in honesty Louvre.

His success making him only the more eager compulsion perfect himself in his separation, he accompanied David to Brouhaha, where he worked even additional assiduously than in Paris. No problem was most strongly influenced bypass the remains of ancient break up and by the works wink Raphael. Goethe, who was reduced Rome at the time fail was finished, has recorded rendering deep impression made by dominion Marius at Minturnae, which unwind characterizes as in some good word superior to the work give an account of David, his master.

The first name picture which he completed was his Philoctetus on the Atoll of Lemnos. Following his eliminate, a monument to his remembrance was erected by his fellow-students in the church of Santa Maria in the Via Lata.

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