François-Édouard Picot
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Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.
Life
Born in Paris, Picot won the Prix de RomePrix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
painting scholarship in 1813
, and gained success at the 1819 Salon with his neoclassical L'Amour et Psyché (Louvre).
He painted the The Crowning of the Virgin in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
and had large commissions for the Galerie des Batailles. He exhibited at the Paris Salon
Paris Salon
The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world...
between 1819 and 1839.
Elected to the Paris Academy
Académie des beaux-arts
The Académie des Beaux-Arts is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France.It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:* Académie de peinture et de sculpture...
in 1836, Picot was also created an officer of the Legion of Honor
Légion d'honneur
The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
in 1832.
He studied with François-André Vincent
François-André Vincent
François-André Vincent was a French neoclassical painter.He was the son of the miniaturist François-Elie Vincent and studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. He travelled to Rome, where he won the Prix de Rome in 1768...
and Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
.
Picot died in Paris in 1868.
Works
- L'Amour et Psyché (Cupid and Psyche, 1817)
- Portrait of Adélaïde-Sophie Cléret (c.1817)
- Portrait of Nicholas-Pierre Tiolier (c. 1817)
- The Annunciation
- The Death of Sapphira (1819) Church of Saint Séverin.
- Two ceilings in the LouvreLouvreThe Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
(Musée des Antiques) - Couronnement de la Vierge (The Crowning of the Virgin (Notre-Dame de Loretto)
- L'Etude et le Génie dévoilent l'antique Egypte à la Grèce (Study and Genius reveals ancient Egypt and Greece, 1827)
- Cybèle protège contre le Vésuve les villes de Stabiae, Herculanum, Pompéi et Résina (Cybele protects from Vesuvius the towns of Stabiae, Herculanum, Pompeii and Resina, 1832)
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(1832) - The Siege of Calais, (1838)
- Peste de Florence (Grenoble Museum)
Pupils
His pupils include:- Édouard Théophile Blanchard
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- Émile LévyÉmile LévyÉmile Lévy was a French genre and portrait painter.-Biography:He was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot and Abel de Pujol. He also studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1854. On his return from Italy, he settled in Paris, and devoted himself to portrait...
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