RAYMOND QUINSAC MONVOISIN (1794-1870) Historicist scene Canvas Signed and dated lower right: RQ Monvoisin 1829 Height 28 cm - Width 22 cm After a short military career, Raymond Quinsac Monvoisin decided to devote himself to painting in 1808. He joined Pierre-Narcisse Guérin's studio and worked on romanticized mythological subjects, already far removed from David's great history paintings. Influenced by the Romantic movement, he went on to paint Orientalist and historicist subjects, which won him great success with bourgeois clients. After a stay at the Académie de France in Rome, he moved to Chile, where he became director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Santiago.