This exhibition, co-organized by the Clark Art Institute of Williamstown and the Louvre Museum, is the first major monograph devoted to an artist who is now largely forgotten, but who was nevertheless "one of the great authorities of his time" (Charles Blanc).
Born in Guadeloupe to a freed slave mother of African origin and a royal officer father, he was trained in Rouen and then in Paris under the Ancien Régime and had a brilliant official career; director of the Académie de France in Rome (1807-1816), elected member of the Institute in 1818, he was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1819. He was also a major collector and advisor to Lucien Bonaparte.
His production illustrates the journey of an artist confronted with the upheavals of his time and the succession of regimes from the Revolution to the July Monarchy.
Most of his painted and drawn work has ancient history as its subject. He began in the triumph of Davidian neo-classicism and his perseverance in this path would cause his discredit at the end of the 1820s, while the young generation of romantic artists gradually established themselves. Ancient heroism inspired two immense canvases of nearly eight meters long preserved at the Louvre, Brutus condemning his sons to death, completed in Rome in 1811, and The Death of Virginia (1828).
Lethière's most famous painting, singular in his work The Oath of the Ancestors (Port-au-Prince, Haitian National Pantheon Museum) manifesto against slavery and for the freedom of peoples, is honored in the itinerary. Most of the works will be presented in Paris for the first time since the 19th century and the new research, carried out both for the exhibition and the catalog, will allow a true rediscovery of this artist.

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