The death of this artist's wife Louise Vernet colored his painting of a haloed dead woman floating in a river titled Young Christian Martyr.
The death of this artist's wife Louise Vernet colored his painting of a haloed dead woman floating in a river titled Young Christian Martyr. He revived the ancient technique of encaustic for a gigantic panorama whose extreme left has Correggio tapping Veronese on the shoulder. That painting by this artist features a crouching nude holding a laurel reef in its center, is known as the Hemicycle, and is located in the Ecole des Beaux Arts. A Cocker Spaniel gazes ominously around the corner as two youths cower on a bed with a green canopy in this artist's The Princes in the Tower. A man wielding an axe waits to chop off the head of a blindfolded queen in his The Execution of Lady Jane Grey. For 10 points, name this French history painter of a realistic version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps
The death of this artist's wife Louise Vernet colored his painting of a haloed dead woman floating in a river titled Young Christian Martyr.
Paul Delaroche [or Hippolyte De La Roche]