Vivant Denon

Vivant Denon in the archive

Periods & movements

18th Century, 19th Century

Genres

Drawings

Cultures

French

Key works by Vivant Denon

1. Severed head, said to be that of Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), guillotined July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor, An II) (1758-1794)
2. The Head of Jean Féraud (1759-1795), a Deputy at the Convention, Carried on a Pike, May 21, 1795. (1759-1795)
3. A Young Woman Sewing (recto) (c. 1790)
4. Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt (1809)
5. Allegory; Portraits of the Artist at Different Ages (1818)
6. Profile of two soldiers wearing fur caps
7. Georges-Auguste Couthon at the National Convention in 1793
8. Male Head in a Hood