Pierre-Victor Galland (Geneva, 15 July 1822 – Paris, 30 November 1892) was a French decorative painter.Pierre Victor Galland

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. Until the age of 16, Galland studied

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with his father, Jacques Galland, a

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. He then joined the studio of

Henri Labrouste Pierre-François-Henri Labrouste () (11 May 1801 – 24 June 1875) was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux-Arts school of architecture. After a six-year stay in Rome, Labrouste established an architectural training worksh ...

, studying architecture. After two years of training, Labrouste encouraged him to pursue his interest in decorative art under the direction of

Michel Martin Drolling Michel Martin Drolling (7 March 1786 – 9 January 1851) was a neoclassic French painter, painter of history and portraitist. Biography He was born in Paris. There, he began painting under the supervision of his father, the painter Martin Dr ...

. In 1843, the decorative painter Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri (1782–1868) hired Galland to assist with the painting of figures, flowers, fruit, and garlands. In 1848, he again worked with Labrouste, in 1848, on the decoration of the Fête de la Concorde. Galland was responsible for the ceiling of the grand staircase at

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in Mayfair, London, England. Marcel de Chollet was one of his students at the

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Bibliography

* Pierre-Victor Galland, ''Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle''. Published in 2006, Somogy, Piscine-musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Musée départemental de l'Oise (Paris, Roubaix, Beauvais). .

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Exposition: Pierre-Victor Galland. Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle

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