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Pierre Henri Révoil (12 June 1776 – 19 March 1842) was a French painter in the troubadour style.

Biography

He was born in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

. His father was a

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. Although he was needed at home, his family allowed him to receive a proper education. He first studied art at the

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in Lyon, under the direction of

Donat Nonnotte Donatien Nonnotte (10 January 1708 – 4 February 1785) was a French painter who specialized in portraiture. A native of Besançon, Nonnotte was received by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1741 as a portrait painter. In 1754, ...

. In 1793, increasing poverty forced his family to send him to work with a manufacturer of patriotic wallpapers. Two years later, he managed to find a place at the studios of Jacques-Louis David at the

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/ref> Initially, he found himself fascinated by

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paintings and found some notoriety for his scenes of the

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. He also did many large-scale religious paintings, but soon focused almost exclusively on historical scenes from the

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, in what would later be somewhat derisively called the "Troubadour Style". RevoilHenritheIVandhischildren

In 1802, when

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, laid the foundation stones for the

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, Révoil celebrated the occasion with a large allegorical drawing, "Napoleon Rebuilding the Town of Lyon", which became the basis for a painting exhibited at the Salon in 1804. Three years later, he was named a Professor in the École des beaux-arts at the palais Saint-Pierre (now the

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). By 1811 he had amassed a huge collection of Medieval armor, chests, vases, wall hangings, paintings and manuscripts. This personal museum was used as a teaching tool for his students at the École. By this time, it was also quite famous and was described in detail for the ' by

Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison (19 July 1759 (Paris) – 14 August 1818 Paris) was an antiquary and naturalist erudite in various domains, who followed Jean-Jacques Barthélemy as curator of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the former ...

. He also wrote Medieval-style

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s, some of which became popular in the Lyon region. La convalescence de Bayard-Pierre Révoil-MBA Lyon 2014

When the

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fell, he rallied to the cause of the Restoration and destroyed his painting of Napoleon. The following year, he married the eighteen-year-old daughter of a cousin and moved to

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in 1818. He returned to Lyon in 1823 and served as Director of the École until 1830. Some of his best-known students there were Claude Bonnefond, Hippolyte Flandrin and

Victor Orsel (André Jacques) Victor Orsel (25 May 1795, Oullins, Rhône - 30 November 1850, Paris) was a French painter. A student of Pierre Révoil in Lyon then of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in Paris, he then spent 7 years at the villa Médicis in Rome (1822 ...

. In 1828, he donated his collection to the

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/ref> and had just finished transferring it to Paris when the

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broke out. This put an end to his career and he left for Provence again, never to return to Lyon. Years later, alone and penniless, he moved into a loft on the

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in Paris, where he died. His sister was the poet

Louise Colet Louise Colet (15 August 1810 – 9 March 1876), born Louise Revoil de Servannes, was a French poet and writer. Life and works She was born at the hôtel d'Antoine ( fr) in Aix-en-Provence in France. In her twenties she married Hippolyt ...

and his son,

Henri Révoil Henri Révoil (1822–1900) was a 19th-century French architect. Biography Early life Henri Révoil was born in 1822 in Aix-en-Provence. His father was the painter Pierre Révoil. Career From 1855 to 1860, he designed the facade of the Égli ...

, was a well-known architect who restored many churches and other public buildings.

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Works by Révoil
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