François-Édouard Picot (; 10 October 1786 in

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– 15 March 1868 in Paris) was a French

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

during the

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, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.

Life

Born in Paris, Picot won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

painting scholarship in 1813, and gained success at the 1819 Salon with his neoclassical ''L'Amour et Psyché'' (Louvre). He painted ''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

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between 1819 and 1839. Elected to the

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in 1836, Picot was also created an officer of the

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in 1832. He studied with

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and

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 ...

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

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(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) * '' Léda'' (1832) * ''The Siege of Calais'', (1838) * ''Peste de Florence'' (Grenoble Museum)

Pupils

His pupils include:Schools and Masters of Painting: With an Appendix on the Principal Galleries of Europe, p.439, by Alida Graveraet Radcliffe, published 1887, Appleton and company *

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* Édouard Théophile Blanchard *

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* Jean-Achille Benouville *

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* Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse *

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* Louis Héctor Leroux *

Émile Lévy Émile Lévy (August 29, 1826 in Paris – 1890) 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 ...

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* Léon Bazile Perrault *

Jules-Émile Saintin Jules-Émile Saintin (14 August 1829 – 13 July 1894) was a neoclassic French painter. Biography He was born in Lemé (France). Jules Émile Saintin was a pupil of Michel Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot at the Ecole des Beaux-Art ...

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References

External links

Francois-Edouard Picot at the Art Renewal Center
1786 births 1868 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Artists from Paris French neoclassical painters Prix de Rome for painting Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Pupils of Jacques-Louis David Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub