François Bouchot (; 1800–1842) was a French painter and
engraver.
Biography
He studied at the
École des beaux-arts de Paris. His primary instructors there were
Jean-Baptiste Regnault and
Jules Richomme. He also frequented the studios of
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière on the .
In 1822, he came in second at the
Prix de Rome. He won the following year and arrived at the
French Academy in Rome in 1824. That same year, he sent his first painting back to France, where it was exhibited at the
Salon of 1824. He would remain in Italy for seven years.
Back in France, he was named a Knight of the
Legion of Honor in 1835. Over the next few years, he executed several commissions from King
Louis-Philippe, including scenes from the
Second Battle of Zurich and the
Coup of 18 Brumaire. The latter was given a special display at the Salon of 1840, on the occasion of
Napoleon's ashes being returned to France. After being at the
Louvre
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for many years, it is now at
Versailles
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.
Sometime in the late 1830s, he married Francesca Lablache (1816-1901). daughter of the comic opera singer
Luigi Lablache, whose portrait he had painted. They had no children. Shortly before his death, she left him to join her lover, the German painter
Henri Lehmann, in Italy. A year later, she married the pianist
Sigismond Thalberg.
"Sigismond Thalberg and Cecchina Lablache, The Glass Coffin With the Ermine Cape"
by Georg Predota @ Interlude
He was preparing to paint murals for a new chapel at Luxembourg Palace, when he died suddenly. The cause of his death was apparently not recorded and what, if any, relationship it may have had to his wife's affair is unknown.
Selected works
File:François Bouchot - Portrait de Pierre-Narcisse Guérin 1830.jpg, ''Portrait of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin'', 1830
File:Battle of Zurich.jpg, '' The Battle of Zurich'', 1835
File:Giulia Grisi.jpg, ''Portrait of Giulia Grisi'', 1840
Dugommier.png, Jacques François Dugommier'', 1836
Bouchot - Le general Bonaparte au Conseil des Cinq-Cents.jpg, Napoleon at the Council of Five Hundred
Luigi Lablache (by Bouchot).jpg, Luigi Lablache
Le Tambour blessé F Bouchot 1836.jpg, The Wounded Drummer
File:Bouchot - Napoléon signe son abdication à Fontainebleau 11 avril 1814.jpg, ''Napoleon Signs His Abdication at Fontainebleau'', 1843
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19th-century French painters
French male painters
French engravers
19th-century French engravers
1800 births
1842 deaths
Painters from Paris
Prix de Rome for painting
19th-century French male artists
18th-century French male artists