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Guillaume-Joseph Roques ( 17571847 ) was a French Neoclassical and Romantic painter.

He taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in Toulouse where Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was among his pupils. He was a profilic artist and one of the most notable exponents of Neoclassicism outside of the centre of the movement in Paris , though later in life he tended towards Romanticism .

His most notable paintings include a copy of '' ( 1793 ) and a series of works covering the life of the Virgin Mary , painted from 18101820 for the choir of the church of Notre-Dame de la Daurade in Toulouse.