Jean-Charles Nicaise Perrin

At the age of eighteen, he obtained positions in the workshops of Gabriel-François Doyen and Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau.

On the third occasion, however, in 1780, he was granted the bursary because the first place winner, Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, turned out to be a Swiss citizen and was ruled ineligible to go.

[2] He was in Rome from 1780 to 1784 and was attracted to the works of Guercino and, especially, Caravaggio; making a meticulous copy of "The Entombment of Christ", which is now at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

In 1788, he produced a canvas on the death of Seneca ordered by the Comte d'Angiviller on behalf of King Louis XVI.

In 1806, he created "France, Supported by Religion, Consecrating Flags Taken from the Enemy to Notre-Dame-de-Gloire",[3] a patriotic mural for the Emperor's personal chapel at the Tuileries.