François-Louis Dejuinne

French painter

François-Louis Dejuinne (1786–1844^[1]^[2]) was a French painter. He was born in Paris in 1786, and learned the art of painting under Girodet. He visited Rome, where he studied the works of Titian, Paolo Veronese, and other great masters. He died in Paris in 1844. His paintings were mostly historical; among them are the 'Ascension of the Virgin ' and 'St. Geneviève ' for Notre-Dame de Lorette, and 'The Four Seasons' for the Trianon Palace.

References

^ Bokenkotter, Thomas S. (20 January 2004). A concise history of the Catholic Church. Doubleday. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-385-50584-0. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^ Wettlaufer, Alexandra (2001). Pen vs. paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac, and the myth of Pygmalion in post-revolutionary France. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-312-23641-0.

Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Dejuinne, François Louis". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.