ARTWORK: Biblical them by the French artist, Claude-Marie Dubufe (1790-1864) – Paradise Lost, c. 1827. Claude-Marie-Paul Dubufe was a prominent French historical, genre and portrait painter, who was born in Paris in 1790. He studied under Jacques-Louis David, and later worked as a teacher’s assistance to the famous artist, assisting him with his classes and working with models for projects. His subjects were at first classical, and then later characters from the bible.
