Éloi Firmin Féron

Éloi Firmin Féron (French pronunciation: [elwa fiʁmɛ̃ feʁɔ̃]; 1802–1876) was a French neoclassicist painter. A student of Antoine-Jean Gros, he won the Prix de Rome for his Damon et Pythias in 1826, aged "twenty-four and a half."^[1] He went on to become a favourite of Louis Philippe I and his sons and contributed to the galleries of Versailles., where most of his major works are now on exhibit, including Entrée de Charles VIII à Naples (1837), Bataille de Fornoue (1838), Prise de Rhodes (1840), besides various portraits.

The Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at the Hôtel de Ville on 31 July 1830 (1837 painting by Féron, after an 1836 work by Charles-Philippe Larivière)