Portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais

Anne-Louis Girodet was a French painter and printmaker of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for history paintings and portraits executed in a Neoclassical idiom with romantic sensibility. A student of Jacques-Louis David, he departed from his master's austere style to introduce softer light, more theatrical composition, and emotional complexity into his work. His canvases often depicted literary and mythological subjects with an attention to psychological nuance that anticipated Romantic painting. He also produced significant works in printmaking and graphic design.

Florence