Jean Broc

Jean Broc was a French painter active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, working within the influential circle of Jacques-Louis David. He emerged during the height of Neoclassicism in France, when artists looked to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration and emphasized clarity, order, and moral virtue in their work. Broc is best known for his striking painting "The Death of Hyacinth" (circa 1801), which depicts the tragic mythological story of Apollo accidentally…