Paul Joseph Jamin was a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 painter

Painting

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 of the Academic Classicism school. He was the son of the renowned physicist

Physicist

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 Jules Jamin

Jules Jamin

Jules Célestin Jamin was a French physicist. He was professor of physics at École Polytechnique from 1852 to 1881 and received the Rumford Medal in 1858 for his work on light...

. He married Augustine Marie Caroline Bastien in 1882, with whom he had four children. One of his best-known paintings is Le Brenn et sa part de butin (1893) that depicts chieftain Brennus

Brennus (4th century BC)

Brennus was a chieftain of the Senones, a Gallic tribe originating from the modern areas of France known as Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, and Yonne, but which had expanded to occupy northern Italy....

 viewing his share of spoils (i.e. captive women) after the looting of Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

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