Alexandre Menjaud

Alexandre Menjaud (1773 – February 1832) was a French history painter in the Troubadour style.

In 1802, he was awarded the Prix de Rome for his depiction of Julius Sabinus and Epponina before Vespasian.

[1] By 1808, when the French had occupied Rome again, he was back in Paris and presented a painting at the Salon that showed King Henry IV having a drink with a humble miller named Michaud.

It was a great success and he subsequently focused on scenes from French, rather than Classical history.

After the First Restoration, he created a series of works on the lives of the great artists, such as Raphael and Tintoretto.