Paul Chevandier De Valdrome
Paul Antoine Marie Chevandier de Valdrome (17 March 1817, in Saint-Quirin – 2 September 1877, in Hautot-sur-Mer) was a French landscape painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style. He also created a few Orientalism, Orientalist works and was a prominent art collector. Biography His father, , was a Master glassmaker who was also a politician; serving as a member of French Parliament, Parliament from 1821 to 1837, and the Chamber of Peers (France), Chamber of Peers after that.''Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889'', edited by Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, BourlotoOnline/ref> His brother, Eugène Chevandier de Valdrôme, briefly served as Minister of the Interior under Napoleon III. He studied art with Prosper Marilhat and François-Édouard Picot, but was especially influenced by the landscape painter, Louis-Nicolas Cabat, whom he accompanied on a trip to Italy from 1836 to 1837, following his first exhibit at the Salon (Paris), Salon. They became ...
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