After several years at Montpellier's art academy, François-Xavier Fabre joined Jacques-Louis David's studio in Paris. His studies were funded by Philippe-Laurent de Joubert, financier, art collector, and father of Laurent-Nicolas de Joubert, whose portrait by Fabre hangs in the Getty Museum. In 1787 Fabre became David's second pupil to win the Prix de Rome. Upheavals in revolutionary France and Fa
