François Maurice Roganeau - Wolves On The Acropolis

François Maurice ROGANEAU Bordeaux, 1883 - Aix-en-Provence, 1973 Oil on canvas on cardboard 44 x 32 cm (55 x 44 cm with frame) Signed lower left “FMR” Mount Lycabettus opposite the Acropolis in Athens was reputed to have been populated by wolves (lukoi in Greek) in Antiquity. This gave rise to legends. Our painting is undoubtedly the illustration of one of these legends. François Maurice ROganeau was a student of Jean Léon Gérôme and Gabriel Ferrier at the Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris. He was winner of the first Grand Prix de Rome. He started out in illustration and had a symbolist period. Notably at the Salon of 1912 he exhibited Le Soir, à la Rivière, inspired by one of the Ancient Poems by André Chénier.