Antoine-Claude Fleury

Miniature portrait of General Baron Pierre Thouvenot

Portrait of cardinal Joseph Fesch, 1807

Antoine-Claude Fleury (1743-1822), a French historical and portrait painter, studied under Regnault, and exhibited at the Salon from 1795 to 1822. Amongst his works are:

• The Abduction of Helen from the Temple of Diana. 1800.
• Theseus going to fight the Minotaur. 1804.
• The Doom of Orestes. 1806.
• Venus and Adonis.
• The Origin of Painting. 1808.
• Cornelia and her Sons. 1810.
• Miss Salisbury. 1812.
• The Flight into Egypt. 1819.
• The Widow's Mite. 1819.
• Portrait of Louis XVIII. 1819.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "FLEURY, Antoine Claude" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.