Jean-Adrien Guignet

French orientalist painter (1816–1854)

Jean-Adrien Guignet (1816 – 1854) was a French orientalist painter.^[1]

Guignet was born in Annecy and grew up in the city of Autun. He was a friend of Hippolyte Michaud. He was a rather popular orientalist painter in his time, and was especially commanded for his Egyptian scenes. He died in Paris.

Works

Musée des beaux-arts de Beaune

Soldat gaulois (circa 1854)
Agar et Ismaël

Musée du Louvre

Cambise et Psamménite
Épisode de la retraite des Dix-Mille (circa 1842)

Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen

Joseph expliquant les rêves du pharaon

Musée Rolin

Xerxes à l'Hellespont
Autoportrait ("Self-portrait")

Joseph expliquant les rêves du pharaon, Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, at the Battle of Cunaxa
Xerxes at the Hellespont
Meeting Between Cambyses II and Psammetichus III after the Battle of Pelusium. Louvre Museum.^[2]

References

^ Institute, Witt Library of the Courtauld (2014). Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-26413-1.
^ Karamanides, Dimitra (15 December 2005). Pythagoras: Pioneering Mathematician and Musical Theorist of Ancient Greece. p. 32. ISBN 9781404205000.