Bénigne Gagneraux (1756 – 1795)

• Was a French painter.
• Gagneraux was first instructed in the school at Dijon under François Devosge.
• From whence he proceeded to Rome, where he acquired a reputation by his picture of the Meeting of Gustavus III. of Sweden with Pope Pius VI.
• In the Dijon Museum are pictures of Soranus and Servilius, Battle of Senef, Passage of the Rhine by the French Army under Condé, a Bacchanal, a Cavalry Charge, and a Triumph of Neptune.
• Owing to the disturbances in Rome he quit that city, and retired to Florence.
• In Florence he died in 1795.
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