Artist

Jean Germain Drouais

1763–1788 · born in Paris · died in Rome

Jean Germain Drouais was a French painter born in Paris in 1763. He was a favorite pupil of Jacques-Louis David, won the Prix de Rome at 21, and became one of the most promising artists of his generation, but he died of smallpox in Rome in 1788 at the age of 24.