Joseph-Noël Sylvestre

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is history painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Work by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre is recorded in the collections of Musée Paul Valéry, Centre national des arts plastiques, Museum of the French Revolution, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Béziers and musée Saint-Germain.

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre was born on 24 June 1847 in Béziers in South-West France. He began his training as an artist first in Toulouse under Thomas Couture, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel. He was an exponent of the romantic Academic art style, also known as art pompier (fireman's art), examples of which are the Death of Seneca (1875), The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Flaminius at the Battle of Trasimene (1882), The Sack of Rome by the barbarians in 410 (1890) and François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe (1893).

• Illustration — The Death of Seneca (1875) • Illustration — The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Gaius Flaminius at the Battle of Lake Trasimene (1882) • Illustration — The Sack of Rome in 410 by the Barbarians (1890). • Illustration — François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe (1893).