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By the time Sargent painted Francois Flameng (1856-1923) with his friend Paul Helleu behind, he was an already accomplished French painter. Francois was known for his genre, scene, and portrait paintings, and later known also for his powerful illustrations of the Great War. His
father
Leopold was an engraver and so he became exposed to art at a very young
age. Francois studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the atelier of
Cabanel. His first submission to the Paris Salon was in 1875 (at the
age
of 19) with the painting "le Lutrin" (a church musical stand
with
a singer). Shortly after he was drafted into the army which briefly
postponed
his career. This later served him well for his empathy of the solder
during
WWI when he became an official war artist for France.
He later became a professor at the academy of Fine Arts and honorary president of the (french) Society of Military Painters.
Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987The Girondins were moderate revolutionaries during the newly formed Legislative Assembly (1791), but they were ousted by the more radical Jacobins in 1793. Many of the Girondins were executed. The painting would have
great appeal
given the Exposition Universal of 1889 was in celebration of the one
hundred
year anniversary of the French Revolution. Philip Gilbert Hamerton "Types Of Contemporary Painting. VII. The French In Holland," July, 1894, Scribner's magazine. / Volume 16, Issue 1, pp. 63-68
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