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(André Jacques) Victor Orsel (25 May 1795, Oullins,

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- 30 November 1850, Paris) was a French painter. A student of

Pierre Révoil Pierre Henri Révoil (12 June 1776 – 19 March 1842) was a French painter in the troubadour style. Biography He was born in Lyon. His father was a furrier. Although he was needed at home, his family allowed him to receive a proper education ...

in Lyon then of

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (13 March 1774 – 6 July 1833) was a French painter born in Paris. Background A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three ''grands prix'' offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition ...

in Paris, he then spent 7 years at the

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in Rome (1822–29), where he worked in the orbit of Overbeck and the

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, and copied the Italian 'primitives', leaving his own art with an archaising tendency. He died unmarried.

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1795 births 1850 deaths People from Oullins 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub