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Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (French: [gijom gijɔ̃ lətjɛʁ]; 10 January 1760 – 22 April 1832) was a French neoclassical painter.

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Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
Portrait by Julien-Léopold Boilly (1822)
Born	(1760-01-10)10 January 1760 Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, France
Died	22 April 1832(1832-04-22) (aged 72) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	painting
Movement	Neoclassicism
Awards	Prix de Rome, Second Grand Prize
Patron(s)	Jean-Baptiste Descamps, Gabriel-François Doyen

Life

Born free in Guadeloupe in 1760 to a French colonial official named Pierre Guillon[1] and a "mulatto" mother,[2] Lethière has been often written about in the context of French colonial history and the French Revolution.

At 14 years old, his father took him from Guadeloupe to Metropolitan France. By the age of 17, Guillon-Lethièrehe had become the student of Gabriel François Doyen at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.[1] Lethière won second prize in the Prix de Rome of 1784 for his painting Woman of Canaan at the Feet of Christ. He entered again two years later, and while he did not win, he succeeded in receiving support to travel to Rome where he further developed his neoclassical style. Lethière remained in Rome for several years

In 1791 he returned to Paris to open a painting studio in direct competition with Jacques-Louis David.[3] In 1818 Lethière was finally elected and also awarded the Légion d’honneur.[4]

A year later he became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.[3] Among his students were Isidore Pils and Polish [5]-Lithuanian painter Kanuty Rusiecki. Lethière was foster father to Mélanie d'Hervilly, later Hahnemann.

Gallery

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  The Death of Cato of Utica (1795)
  Hermitage Museum
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  Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos, (1798) Louvre
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  The Sleep of Venus (1802)
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  The Oath of the Ancestors (1822)

References

Further reading

• B. Foucart, G. Capy and G. Flrent Laballe, Guillaume Guillon Lethière (Paris and Point-à-Pitre, 1991).
• Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, "Revolutionary Sons, White Fathers and Creole Difference: Guillaume Guillon Lethière's Oath of the Ancestors of 1822" Yale French Studies 101 (2002): pp. 201–226.
• T. Oriol, Les Hommes célèbres de La Guadeloupe (Basse-Terre, 1935), pp. 39–47.

External links

• Media related to Guillaume Guillon Lethière at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Guillaume Guillon-Lethière

Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (* 10. Januar 1760 in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe; † 22. April 1832 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler.

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- [en] Guillaume Guillon-Lethière

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[es] Guillaume Guillon Lethière

Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (Sainte-Anne, Guadalupe, 10 de enero de 1760 - París, 22 de abril de 1832) fue un pintor neoclásico, profesor de la École des Beaux-Arts de París.

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[fr] Guillaume Guillon Lethière

Guillaume Lethière ou Guillaume Guillon Lethière, né le 10 janvier 1760 à Sainte-Anne (Guadeloupe) et mort le 22 avril 1832 à Paris, est un peintre français.

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[it] Guillaume Guillon Lethière

Guillaume Guillon Lethière (Sainte-Anne, 10 gennaio 1760 – Parigi, 22 aprile 1832) è stato un pittore francese.

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[ru] Гийон-Летьер, Гийом

Гийом Гийон-Летьер (фр. Guillaume Guillon Lethière; 1760, Сент-Анн, Гваделупа, Французская Вест-Индия — 1832, Париж) — французский художник, представитель неоклассицизма в живописи, профессор Национальной высшей школы изящных искусств Парижа.

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