![]() ![]() He became the favourite painter of empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, who bought many of his paintings, so that the European renown gained by his first works was recognised by Madame de Staël. His first paintings had major success and he mingled with the Paris intelligentsia, among whom the Troubador style was highly favoured. In 1796 he joined the Paris studio of Jacques-Louis David. ![]() ![]() The son of a magistrate, Fleury François Richard studied at the collège de l'Oratoire in Lyon then at the école de Dessin under Alexis Grognard. A student of Jacques-Louis David, Fleury-Richard and his friend Pierre Révoil were precursors of the Troubador style. Portrait of Fleury François Richard by Jean-Marie Jacomin in 1852įleury François Richard (25 February 1777, Lyon – 14 March 1852, Écully), sometimes called Fleury-Richard, was a French painter of the École de Lyon. ![]()
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