Art, literature & historyPierre-Narcisse Guérin
1774–1833
Selected artwork
Grasp All, Lose All (Qui trop embrasse, mal etrient)
c. 1816
National Gallery of Art
Other names (9)
Baron Guerin, Baron Pierre Guérin, Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Gaerin, Pierre, Baron Guérin, Pierre Guérin, Pierre Narcisse, Baron Guerin, Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, P.-N. Guérin
Biography
Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (13 March 1774 – 6 July 1833) was a French painter, born in Paris.
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793. In 1799, his painting The Return of Marcus Sextus (Louvre) was exhibited at the Salon and excited wild enthusiasm. Part of this was due to the subject – a victim of Sulla's proscription returning to Rome to find his wife dead and his house in mourning – in which an allusion was found to the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Guérin on this occasion was publicly crowned by the president of the institute, and went to Rome to study under Joseph-Benoît Suvée. In 1800, unable to remain in Rome on account of his health, he went to Naples, where he painted The Shepherds in the Tomb of Amyntas . In 1802 Guérin produced Phaedra and Hippolytus (Louvre); in 1810, after his return to Paris, he again achieved a great success with Andromache and Pyrrhus (Louvre); and in the same year also exhibited Aurora and Cephalus (Pushkin Museum) and Bonaparte and the Rebels of Cairo (Versailles).
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée du Louvre11 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art7 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux3 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art3 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes2 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts2 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Chambéry1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Orléans1 recorded work
- musée Hyacinthe Rigaud — Perpignan1 recorded work
- Museo Nacional del Prado1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Art1 recorded work
- Palais-musée des Archevêques de Narbonne — Narbonne1 recorded work