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French painter
Moses and the Serpent of Brass
Eugene Roger
(26 May 1807,
Sens
? 30 July 1840,
Paris
) was a French painter in the
Romantic
style who specialized in historical and Biblical scenes.
Biography
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He was the son of a tax collector from
Bourges
. He initially studied at the
College Royal
and received his first lessons in drawing from Henri-Joseph Boichard (1783?1850). In 1826, he enrolled at the
Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts
, on the recommendation
Louis Hersent
, whose student he became. Later, he studied with
Antoine-Jean Gros
and, in 1832, with
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
. He entered the competition for the
Prix de Rome
six times between 1828 and 1833, when he finally won the prize for his rendering of
Moses
and the serpent of brass.
He lived at the
Villa Medicis
between 1834 and 1838, sending home paintings to be exhibited at the
Salon
on a regular basis. He held numerous showings there from 1831 until his untimely death. In 1833, his "Body of
Charles the Bold
" received official recognition from the
Academie des Beaux-Arts
and his final known work, featuring
John the Baptist
preaching, was acquired by the French government for 4000 Francs and installed at the
Musee du Berry
.
In 1838, he contracted an unspecified "chest disease" that required him to leave Rome. Nevertheless, upon returning home he accepted several commissions from the galleries at
Versailles
: a
Charlemagne
crossing the Alps brought him 600 Francs that year, and a depiction of the lifting of the Siege of Salerno (1016) provided 1500 Francs in 1839 from King
Louis-Philippe
. The painting was to be placed in the
Hall of the Crusades
; a new museum being planned by the King.
His health became increasingly fragile during this time and he died in 1840, aged only thirty-three.
Sources
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- Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, "Eugene Roger a Hippolyte Flandrin a travers leurs relations epistolaires, la vie d'un pensionnaire de la Villa Medicis", in
Archives de l'Art francais
, nouvelle periode, 1986.
External links
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Media related to
Eugene Roger
at Wikimedia Commons
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