Louis Ducis
Louis Ducis (14 July 1775, Versailles - 2 March 1847, Paris) was a French painter and student of Jacques-Louis David.
Biography[]
Louis Ducis was instructed by David, whom he partly imitated in his historical pieces, besides which he devoted himself also to genre and portrait painting. His 'Mary Stuart' and 'The Début of Talma' were formerly in the Luxembourg Gallery. He died in 1847.
References[]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Ducis, Louis". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- Joan Mut i Arbós, "Sappho Recalled to Life by Music: Feminine Emotion and raison d'état in Neoclassical Napoleonic Painting", Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography XLIII/1-2 (2018), 21-48.
Categories:
- 1775 births
- 1847 deaths
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters
- Pupils of Jacques-Louis David
- People from Versailles
- French painter, 18th-century birth stubs