Jean-Adrien Guignet (1816 – 1854) was a French orientalist painter. Guignet was born in Annecy and grew up in the city of

Autun Autun () is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the e ...

. 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 The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

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

Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen () is an art museum in Rouen, in Normandy in north-western France. It was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801, and is housed in a building designed by and built between 1877, and 1888. Its collections in ...

* ''Joseph expliquant les rêves du pharaon'' ;

Musée Rolin The Musée Rolin is an art museum in Autun, Burgundy, France. Created in 1878 on the initiative of the , it is located on the site of the former home of Chancellor Nicolas Rolin. Its collections range from Gallo-Roman archaeology to 20th centur ...

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

Gallery

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expliquant les rêves du pharaon'',

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Ten Thousand The Ten Thousand (, ''hoi Myrioi'') were a force of mercenary units, mainly Greeks, employed by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II. Their march to the Battle of Cunaxa and bac ...

, at the

Battle of Cunaxa The Battle of Cunaxa was fought in the late summer of 401 BC between the Persian king Artaxerxes II and his brother Cyrus the Younger for control of the Achaemenid Empire, Achaemenid throne. The great battle of the revolt of Cyrus took place 70&nb ...

'' File:Adrien Guignet - Xerxes at the Hellespont.jpg, '' Xerxes at the

Hellespont The Dardanelles ( ; ; ), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli (after the Gallipoli peninsula) and in classical antiquity as the Hellespont ( ; ), is a narrow, natural strait and internationally significant waterway in northwestern Turkey t ...

'' File:Meeting Between Cambyses II and Psammetichus III.jpg, ''Meeting Between Cambyses II and

Psammetichus III Psamtik III (Ancient Egyptian: , pronounced ), known by the Graeco-Romans as Psammetichus or Psammeticus (Ancient Greek: ), or Psammenitus (Ancient Greek: ), was the last Pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt from 526 BC to 525 BC. Most of ...

'' after the Battle of Pelusium. Louvre Museum.

References

1816 births 1854 deaths French Orientalist painters 19th-century French painters People from Annecy People from Autun {{France-painter-19thC-stub