Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, a.k.a. Paulin-Guérin

Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin was born in Toulon on March 25, 1783.

After devoting himself, like his father, to locksmithing in his native town and then in Marseille, he moved to Paris, where he worked for François Gérard and in the workshop of François-André Vincent.

Noticed in 1812 for his Cain after the Murder of Abel, which was bought by the government, his career was finally launched.

What followed over three decades was a fine series of canvases on biblical and mythological subjects: Dead Jesus and the Mother of Sorrows for Baltimore Cathedral (for which he was awarded a gold medal), Anchises and Venus, acquired by the government in 1824, Ulysses in the face of Neptune's wrath, Adam and Eve exiled from Eden, The Holy Family saddened by the presentiment of the Savior's passion, Chevalier Roze's devotion during the Marseilles plague of 1720, Jesus on the Cross between the genius of good and evil, Saint Catherine, The Conversion of Saint Augustine...

However, it was in the art of portraiture that he achieved his greatest successes. The most notable are those of Charles Nodier, Abbé Lamennais, Pierre-Simon Laplace Laplace, Marshals Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Jean Lannes, Auguste Viesse de Marmont and Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Chateaubriand, Louis XVIII and Charles X.

Jean-Baptiste Paulin-Guérin died in Paris on January 19, 1855. He is buried in the 9th division of the Montparnasse cemetery .