Charles Paul Landon ( French Charles Paul Landon ; October 12, 1760 , Nonan-les-Pins - March 5, 1826 , Paris ) - French artist, engraver and art historian, student of J.-B. Reno .
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| Date of Birth | October 12, 1760 |
| Place of Birth | Nonan-les-Pins , France |
| Date of death | March 5, 1826 (aged 65) |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Awards | Roman Prize ( 1792 ) |
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Biography
Charles Paul Landon was born in Nonan-les-Pins in 1760. He studied at the studio of Jean-Baptiste Reno , where he became friends with Robert Lefebvre . Having received in 1792 a large prize from the Paris Academy of Arts, he went to Rome , where he spent five years. Started exhibiting in 1795. He exhibited three paintings in the Louvre . Upon his return to Paris, he was a court painter of the Duchess of Berry and subsequently a corresponding member of the institute and a conservative of the Louvre art gallery.
Creativity
He wrote historical stories in the pseudo-classical spirit of L. David , but he was mainly engaged in the publication of illustrated works on art collections and exhibitions, composing a text for them and placing engravings and his own works in them. The main of these publications:
- “Annales du Musée de l'école moderne de beaux arts” (17 vol., 1801-10);
- “Paysages et tableaux de genre du Musée Napoleon” (4 vol.);
- “Annales du Musée, 2-me collection” (12 vol.);
- “Vies et oeuvres des peintres les plus célèbres” (22 vol., 1803-25);
- "Description de Paris etc." (1809);
- “Galerie des hommes les plus célèbres de tous les siècles et de toutes les nations” (12 vol., 1803-25),
- "Galerie Ginstiniani et la galerie Massias" (6 vol., 1810).
See also
- French painting
Links
- Landon, Charles-Paul // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.