François Guillaume Ménageot (1744–1816)

• Was a French painter.
• Son of Augustin Ménageot, a famous art dealer.

• The young Ménageot was first a pupil of Deshays de Colleville, then of Vien and finally of Boucher.

• After winning the Prix de Rome in 1766 with his Thomyris, queen of the Massagetae plunging Cyrus' head into a vase full of blood, he stayed at the Académie de France in Rome from 1769 to 1774. 

• In 1780, he was made a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with L'étude arrêtant le temps as a reception piece. 

• In 1781, he presented at the Salon his Leonardo da Vinci dying in the arms of Francis I, a reflection on The Death of Germanicus by Nicolas Poussin.

• In 1787, he was preferred to David as director of the Académie de France in Rome and held this position until it was abolished on 27 November 1792. 

• On 30 January 1790, he was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as Gros' successor.

• He was sufficiently esteemed to appear, in 1800, in the list of the ten best French painters established by Le Brun, at the request of Lucien Bonaparte.

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