Charles Marie Bouton (16 May 1781 in Paris – 28 June 1853) was a

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painter. He was a student of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

, Jean-Victor Bertin and the first French

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painter Pierre Prévost. He concentrated mostly on the perspective and the art of distributing light and was thus led to the invention of the

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, which he shares the honor with

Jacques Daguerre Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ( , ; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photog ...

. As a painter, he has reproduced happily ''Souterrains de Saint-Denis'', la cathédrale de Chartres, and an interior view of the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.

References

Charles Marie Bouton (Wikipedia French)

External links

Charles Marie Bouton
in Joconde database

Sources

* Pierre Defer, ''General Catalogue of auctions of paintings and prints from 1737 to the present day'', Paris, Aubry, 1868, 90–3. 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters 1853 deaths Pupils of Jacques-Louis David 1781 births 19th-century male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub