Battle of Aboukir (1806), Capitulation of Madrid, Battle of the Pyramids (1810), Interview between Napoleon and Emperor of Austria (1812), Louis XVIII. quitting the Tuileries in 1815 (1817), Charles X. at the Camp of Reims (1827), portraits of Masséna and Duc de Bellune, Eugène Beauharnais, King Jerome (1808), Marshal Duroc, Count Daru, General Count Fournier-Sarlovèse (1812), of himself, Versailles Museum; Embarcation of Duchesse d'Angoulême (1819), Bordeaux Museum; Venus and Cupid (1832), Hercules and Diomedes (1835), Portraits of himself and Madame Gros, Toulouse Museum; eleven miniatures, Montpellier Museum; Portrait of Marshal Duroc, Nancy Museum; Portraits of Napoleon, King of Westphalia, King of Naples, Louis XVIII., Charles X., and many contemporary persons of note.—Delestre, Gros, Vie et Œuvres; Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 702; Ch. Blanc, École française; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Clusman; Chesneau, Chefs d'École (Paris, 1883); Meyer, Gesch., 109; Kunstblatt (1835), No. 71-73.
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GROS, LUCIEN ALPHONSE, born at Wesserling (Alsace); contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Meissonier; his pictures are well-drawn and characteristic. Medals: 1867; 2d class, 1876. Works: The Miseries of War (1873); The Arquebusier, Fishing with a Line, Cloister of St. Barthelemy at Nice (1874); Conspirators against Cardinal Mazarin, A Smoker, House of a Peasant near Nice (1875); Sitting for a Portrait (1876); Lying-in-Wait, The Critic (1878); The Blow with the Spur (1879); Pergolese in Vernet's Studio (1880); Two Philosophers, A Gentleman (1881); Maurice of Nassau (1884).
GROSCLAUDE, LOUIS, born at Locle,
Switzerland, Sept. 26, 1788, died in Paris,
Dec. 11, 1869. Genre painter, pupil of
Regnault; widely known through his agreeably-composed
and well-coloured pictures.
Associate member of the Berlin Academy,
1827. Medals: 3d class, 1835; 2d class,
1838; 1st class, 1845; 1st class at Geneva
and Brussels. Works: The Drinkers (1827);
Soap Bubbles (1833); Toast to the Vintage
of 1834 (1835); Military Salute (1837); The
Little Breakfast (1838); Fortune-Teller
(1839); Three Gossips (1841); Marino Faliero
(1842), Drinker (1846), Neuchâtel Museum;
Magdalen (1845), Collection of Duke
of Treviso; Norma (1845); Saint Cecilia
(1848); Reading the News of the Capture
of the Malakoff, Two Little Friends (1859);
Interior of a Stable near Geneva (1864);
Departure of the Enrolled (1869), Musée
Rath, Geneva.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i.
703.
GROSS, RICHARD, born in Munich in
1848. Portrait and figure painter; taken
to America in childhood; pupil of the National
Academy schools, New York, and
studied in Munich. Bronze medal, Royal
Academy, Bavaria. Studio in Munich (1882).
Works: Savant; Old Nuremberg; Lady of
Shalott; Portrait of William Chambers,
Lady of the 17th century (1879); Initial
Painter (1882).
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GROSSE, FRANZ THEODOR, born in
Dresden, April 23,
1829. History and
portrait painter,
pupil of Dresden
Academy under
Bendemann, whom
he assisted in the
decoration of the
Royal Palace, and
then executed
paintings in the Dresden Museum; went in
1858 to Florence, and in 1859 to Rome,
where he studied Raphael. After his return
he decorated (1864-71) the Loggia of the
Leipsic Museum; became professor at the
Dresden Academy in 1867. Works: Leda
with the Swan (1852), Sketch for Curtain to
