Louis Ducis

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File:Bianca Cappello et son amant fuyant vers Florence à travers les Apennins - Jean-Louis Ducis - MBA Lyon 2014.jpg
Louis Ducis, Bianca Cappello Fleeing with Her Lover
File:Le Tasse chez sa sœur Cornelia à Sorrente by Louis Ducis.JPG
Le Tasse at his sister Cornelia's in Sorrento (1812)

Louis Ducis (14 July 1775 – 2 March 1847) was a French painter and student of Jacques-Louis David.

Biography

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Ducis was born in Versailles. He was instructed by David, whom he partly imitated in his historical pieces, besides which he devoted himself also to genre and portrait painting. His Mary Stuart and The Début of Talma were formerly in the Luxembourg Gallery. He died in 1847 in Paris.

References

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  • Joan Mut i Arbós, "Sappho Recalled to Life by Music: Feminine Emotion and raison d'état in Neoclassical Napoleonic Painting", Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography XLIII/1-2 (2018), 21–48.

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