Resumen de Fulchran-Jean Harriet
The writer discusses the work of painter Fulchran-Jean Harriet, which has not been previously studied. A student of David, Harriet won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1793, though revolutionary events prevented him from going to Rome. He won again in 1796, but did not go to the Villa Medici, the new site of the French Academy in Rome, until 1803. Between 1793 and 1803, he spent ten years in Paris in an uncertain situation, exhibiting at the Salon, creating works of an indisputable originality, and also producing numerous works to earn his living. When he arrived in Rome, he began work on what would have been his masterpiece: an immense canvas representing Horatius Cocles Defending the Sublicius Bridge. He had only finished a third of the painting when he died, aged 29.
