Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French neo-classic painter.

After a first training in the Dilh et Guerhard porcelain factory, he became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault

Jean-Baptiste Regnault

Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...

. He won the prestigious 1803 Prix de Rome

Prix 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...

 for his painting Enée portant son père Anchise. He lived in Villa Médicis in 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...

 from 1809 to 1812, and won a gold award for his painting Mort de Louis XII. He then began a career as an interior decorator, completing works at Fontainebleau Castle, Brongniart Palace, the Louvre Museum, and the Sénat.

He was elected member of Beaux-Arts Academy in 1832, after which he was nominated professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.The École des Beaux-arts is made up of a vast complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près,...

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image:Merry-Joseph Blondel - Felicite-Louise-Julie-Constance de Durfort.jpg|Félicité de Constance

Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville

Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and later a marshal of France.-Biography:Bournonville was born at Champignol-lez-Mondeville, Aube....

image:Fall of Icarus Blondel decoration Louvre INV2624.jpg|The Fall of Icarius

Icarius

In Greek mythology, there were two people named Icarius or Ikários .-Icarius of Sparta:One Icarius was the son of either Perieres and Gorgophone or of Oebalus and Bateia, brother of Hippocoon and Tyndareus and, through Periboea, father of Penelope, Perileos, Thoas, Damasippus, Imeusimus, Aletes...

 (Louvre)
image:Merry-Joseph Blondel - Louis XIV.jpg|Louis XIV
image:Richard coeur de lion.jpg|Richard Coeur de Lion
File:Merry-Joseph_Blondel,_The_Death_of_Hyacinthus.jpg|The death of Hyacinthus

Hyacinth (mythology)

Hyacinth or Hyacinthus is a divine hero from Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae, southwest of Sparta, where his tumulus was located— in classical times at the feet of Apollo's statue in the sanctuary that had been built round the burial mound— dates from the Mycenaean era...