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Portrait Of The Poet André Chénier Amount To The Scaffold, Romantic Painting Signed Peronard

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"Portrait Of The Poet André Chénier Amount To The Scaffold, Romantic Painting Signed Peronard"

The poet André Chénier ascending the scaffold Oil on canvas 27.5 x 22 cm Signed lower right Peronard dated 1848 The poet André Chénier (1762-1794) His poetry includes rewritings of ancient poems, personal elegies, poems philosophical and political poems marked by the revolutionary context. On July 25, 1794, condemned for having "concealed the papers of the Spanish ambassador", Chénier, thirty-one, was taken to the guillotine. The unfinished work of this young eighteenth century poet, published gradually from 1819, made him a major figure of Hellenism in France and an inspirer of the romanticism to which Victor Hugo paid homage.