Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne (1769 –1860) 

• Was a French historical and portrait painter.
• Barbier-Walbonne was born at Nîmes in 1769.

• He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David.

• He was a soldier during the French Revolutionary period, and was shown wearing the uniform of a lieutenant in a regiment of hussars in a drawing by Jean-Baptiste Isabey.

• He worked as an assistant to François Gérard, and is said to have posed for the figure of Cupid in Gérard's Cupid and Psyche, shown at the Salon in 1798. 

• Barbier-Walbonne painted several subjects from Roman history, and others of a less heroic kind; also portraits of the distinguished generals of France.

• In the Gallery of Versailles are portraits, by him, of Moreau and Moncey.

• He died at Passy in 1860.

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