Louis-Aimé Grosclaude
Louis-Aimé Grosclaude (26 September 1784, Le Locle - 11 December 1869, Paris) was a Swiss painter who began as a portrait painter, then specialized in Genre art, genre and historical scenes. Kontol Biography Louis-Aimé Grosclaude served as an apprenticeship with his father, Abraham-Louis Grosclaude, an engraver and watchmaker, but practiced drawing in his spare time. From 1803 to 1805, he trained in Geneva with a Dutch painter, whose name has not been recorded. He then spent two years in Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and took a position in the studios of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, who encouraged him to compete in the Prix de Rome. Illness from overwork prevented him from doing so, however, and he found it necessary to seek treatment at home twice during those years. Upon returning to Geneva, he set up as a portrait painter and gained a considerable reputation as such, but decided that he preferred to paint genre scenes. In 1824, he married the painter, Je ...
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