GREGOIRE Paul Aix - en - Provence 1755 - Paris 1842 The Temptation of Saint Anthony Original oil on canvas. Old stretcher frame (small gaps) Signed and dated lower middle Paul Grégoire Sour - muet 1814. On the reverse Paul Grégoire / sourd muet 1814. At the top right two labels stuck on the canvas: 124 (?) and 41. H. 81 - L. 100 cm Empire style frame in wood and gilded stucco decorated with palmettes (small missing parts) Exhibition: Salon of 1814, n° 466 La Tentation de St - Antoine. The catalogue indicates Grégoire, sourd - muet, rue Neuve - St - Augustin, n. 41. Paul Grégoire, who painted on velvet with his brother Gaspard, exhibited at the Salon from 1793 to 1819. The Musée Carnavalet (Paris) holds his portrait of Abbé Charles - Michel de l'Epée (1712 - 1789), founder of the Institution des sourds - muets. Patrice Dubois Expert in Ancient Paintings & Drawings 16 rue de Provence - 75 009 Paris