Georges Rochegrosse

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Georges Rochegrosse (1859–1938) was a French historical and decorative painter. He was born at Versailles and studied in Paris with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. His themes are generally historical, and he treated them on a colossal scale and in an emotional naturalistic style, with a distinct revelling in the horrible. "Vitellius" (1882), "Andromache" (1883), "la Jacquerie" (1885)' "The Fall of Babylon" (1891), "The Death of the Emperor Geta" (1899, Amiens Museum), and "Barbarian Ambassadors at the Court of Justinian" (1907), are examples of his strong and spirited but sensational and often brutal painting. In quite another style and beautiful in color is his "Knight among the Flowers" (1894, Luxembourg). He was elected an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1892 and received the medal of honor in 1906 for "The Red Delight."

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