François-Édouard Picot (; 10 October 1786 – 15 March 1868) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

during the

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, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.

Life

Born in Paris, Picot studied with François-André Vincent 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 ...

. He 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). Picot painted ''The Crowning of the Virgin'' in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and had large commissions for the ''

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''. He exhibited at the

Paris Salon The Salon (), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world. At the ...

between 1819 and 1839. Elected to the Paris Academy in 1836, Picot was also created an officer of the

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in 1832. He died in Paris in 1868.

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

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

(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)

Gallery

File:Cupid and Psyche by François-Édouard Picot.jpg, François-Édouard Picot, ''L'Amour et Psyché'' (1817). File:François-Édouard Picot - Léda.jpg, François-Édouard Picot, '' Léda'' (1832). File:Picot Francois Eduoard L-Etude et le Genie devoilent l-antique Egypte a la Grece.jpg, Study and Genius unveil ancient Egypt to Greece, 1827 File:Antoine-Louis Regnault by Picot, 1846.jpg, Antoine-Louis Regnault, 1846 File:Odalisque - François Edouard Picot.jpg, Odalisque, 1829 File:Picot 1813 Rennes.jpg, François-Edouard Picot, La mort de Jacob, 1813, Rennes, musée des Beaux-Arts

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 * Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour * Édouard Théophile Blanchard * Louis Émile Benassit * Jean-Achille Benouville * François-Léon Benouville *

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* Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse *

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* Louis Héctor Leroux * Émile Lévy *

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* Léon Bazile Perrault * Jules-Émile Saintin *

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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 Painters from Paris French neoclassical painters Prix de Rome for painting Officers of the Legion of Honour Pupils of Jacques-Louis David Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub