Jean-Victor Schnetz was a French academic painter well regarded for his historical and genre paintings.

Schnez studied in Paris under 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...

. His works can be found at the Louvre

Louvre

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 and the Petit Palais

Petit Palais

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 in Paris, the Château de Versailles in Versailles, the Hermitage

Hermitage Museum

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 in St. Petersburg, and the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

In 1837 Schnetz was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts

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...

, and he was twice the Director of the French Academy in Rome

French Academy in Rome

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, from 1841 to 1846 then again in 1853-1866.