In 1778, after being awarded the Prix de Rome with the painting The Indignation of David, Giroust left for Rome where he once again joined Vien. Once back in France, Giroust was elected at the Academy, on 29 March 1788, with the painting Oedipus at Colonus, a work of pure Neoclassicism. The choice of a blind hero was surely informed by David's 1780 Blind Belisarius.[1]
Giroust's career was however brought to an end by the French Revolution. He didn't champion the new regime, and eventually retired to the countryside and hardly painted anymore. Giroust died in 1817.
Works of Art
Portrait of a Lady
The Harp Players
Prisoner And Child
L'historien Juif Flavius Josèphe Délivré À Rome De Ses Fers
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust.
Sources
Antoine Giroust : Peintre d'Histoire de l'Ancienne Academie, E.S. Giroust, 1888, Imprimerie d' Amedee, Paris
Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, 1997, p. 94
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