Guillaume Lethiere (January 10, 1760 – April 22, 1832) was a French neoclassical painter. This painting is a typical example of the painting of Neoclassicism, which was popular in the decade after the French Revolution of 1789. The subject was deliberately selected with a didactic purpose, to be an example of bravery and stoicism. This death-bed is treated with all the idealization inherent in the Neoclassical style, without any naturalistic details. The composition recalls a bas-relief, with the subject stretched along the foreground of the painting, while the modelling of forms and the hero's pose are borrowed from the Ancient Roman sculpture of The Dying Gaul, evidence of the deliberate imitation of Antique art.
[Oil on canvas, 149.5 x 226 cm]
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