Éloi Firmin Féron

The arrival of Louis-Philippe at Hôtel-de-Ville on 31 July 1830 (1837 painting by Féron)

Éloi Firmin Féron (18021876) was a French neoclassicist painter. A student of Antoine-Jean Gros, he won the Prix de Rome for his Damon et Pythias in 1826, aged "twenty-four and a half".[1] He went on to become a favourite of Louis Philippe I and his sons, contributing much to the galleries of Versailles., where most of his major works are now on exhibit, including Entrée de Charles VIII à Naples (1837), Bataille de Fornoue (1838), Prise de Rhodes (1840), besides various portraits.

References

  1. Annales de la littérature et des arts 1826, p. 404.
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