Claude-Marie-Paul Dubufe, a French historical and portrait painter

Portrait painting

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, was born in Paris in 1790, and studied under David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

. His subjects were at first classical

Classical antiquity

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, and then scriptural

Bible

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, but his reputation rests chiefly on his portraits, of which he produced a large number. Dubufe, who was the last representative of the school of David, died at Selle-Saint-Cloud

La Celle-Saint-Cloud

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 in 1864. Amongst his chief works are:

• A Roman suffering starvation with his family rather than touch a sum of money entrusted to him. 1810.
• Christ allaying the tempest. 1819.
• Apollo and Cyparissa
  Cyparissus
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  . 1822.
• The Birth of the Duke of Bordeaux. 1824. (Orleans
  Orléans
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   Museum.)
• The Passage of the Bidassoa
  Bidasoa
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  . 1824.
• Four frescoes representing 'Egypt,' &c. (Conseil d'État, Paris.)
• The Surprise. 1828. (National Gallery
  National gallery
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  , London.)
• Portrait of Louis Philippe.
• Portrait of General Montesquiou-Fezenzac
  Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac
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  (Versailles
  Palace of Versailles
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  ).
• Portrait of Nicholas Koechlin. 1841.
• Portrait of the Queen of the Belgians
  Louise of Orléans
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  .