Jean Antoine Théodore Giroust (1753 - 1817),

• Was a French neoclassical painter.

• In 1770, at age seventeen, Giroust started studying painting in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien.

• Among other students was Jacques-Louis David.

• In 1775, Vien left Paris as he became director of the French Academy in Rome.

• Giroust thus decided to move to study with Nicolas Bernard Lépicié. 

• In 1778, after being awarded the Prix de Rome with the painting The Indignation of David, Giroust left for Rome where he once again joined Vien.

• Once back in France, Giroust was elected at the Academy, on 29 March 1788.

• Giroust's career was however brought to an end by the French Revolution.

• He didn't champion the new regime, and eventually retired to the countryside and hardly painted anymore.

• Giroust died in 1817.

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