Fulchran-Jean Harriet

Life

Salon-exhibited paintings

• 1796
• * n° 200, Ariadne abandoned by Theseus on the isle of Naxos.
• * n° 201, Two subjects drawn from the story of Hero and Leander.
• * drawings: n° 202 Oedipus at Colonus and Sappho and Anacreon.
• 1799
• * n° 155, Portrait of citizeness G.. in the bath.
• 1800
• * n° 181, Dying Virgil.
• * n° 182, The Death of Raphael, allegorical drawing
• * Portrait of a woman.
• 1802
• * Portrait of an author.
• * Portrait of a child.
• 1806
• * n° 244 Hylas abducted by Nymphs, mentioned as belonging to his widow, an artist in her own right
• * n° 245 Hero and Leander, drawing, mentioned as belonging to his widow

  Works

Surviving

• Portrait of a young boy holding a hoop, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, oil on canvas, 51 by 38 cm, signed and dated on the hoop Harriet fecit 1797, bought by the city in 1901.
• Battle of the Horatii and the Curiatii, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, oil on canvas, 113 par 145, Prix de Rome for painting in 1798, acquired 27 December 1884.
• , possibly a self-portrait, Paris, Musée du Louvre, crayon and stump, 0.40 by 0.32 cm, annotated in the lower right hand corner : Hariette, Élève de David, mort à Rome, at the base 1795, formerly in the collection of the painter Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine, another student of David, bought in 1999 from the galerie de Bayser, Paris; bibliography: François Viatte, Revue du Louvre, 1999, n° 4, page 93, n° 12
• Marat dying, Versailles, Musée Lambinet, oil on canvas.
• Oedipus at Colonus, 1798,

  Known in Engravings

• , or The Arrest of Robespierre, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, colour engraving by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert after Harriet, showing the gendarme Charles-André Merda firing the shot which broke Robespierre's jaw
• Brutus, dead in battle, is brought back to Rome, 1793

  Public Sales

• Cephalus and Procris, oil on canvas, 96 by 182, Sotheby's New York City, 28 February 1990, lot 3, valued at 15,400 $.