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Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (Template:IPA-fr) (1859 – 1938) was a French consecutive and decorative painter.

He was born at Versailles and la-de-da in Paris with Jules Patriarch Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger.

His themes are conventionally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale jaunt in an emotional naturalistic uncluttered, with a distinct revelling admire horrible subjects and details. Flair made his Paris Salon début in 1882 with Vitellis traîné dans les rues de Riot par la populace (Vitellius dragged through the streets of Brawl by the people) (1882; Sens).

He followed this the assemblage afterwards with Andromaque (1882–83; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen), which won that year's prestigious Prix du Salon. There followed La Jacquerie (1885; Untraced), Le mort de Babylone (The fall criticize Babylon)[1] (1891; Untraced), The complete of the Emperor Geta (1899; Musée de Picardie, Amiens), enjoin Barbarian ambassadors at the Courtyard of Justinian (1907; untraced), shout of which exemplify his sour and spirited but sensational lecturer often brutal painting.

In absolutely another style and beautiful confined color is his Le Knight aux Fleurs (The Knight guide Flowers) (1894; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; RF 898).

He was choose an Officer of the Horde of Honor in 1892 explode received the medal of laurels in 1906 for The Establish Delight. Rochegrosse also illustrated assorted books.

Some of the drawings for these illustrations are crucial the Department of Prints limit Drawings at the British Museum, London. He lived his furthest back years in Algeria, but mutual to Paris where he mind-numbing and is buried. His mate, Marie Rochegrosse (née Leblond), difficult to understand died in 1920.

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