Francois Edouard Picot ( Fr. François-Édouard Picot ; 1786-1868) - French historical painter, pupil of Francois-Andre Vincent and Jacques-Louis David , a representative of neoclassicism .
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| fr François-Édouard Picot | |
| Birth name | Francois Edouard Picot |
| Date of Birth | October 17, 1786 |
| Place of Birth | Paris |
| Date of death | March 15, 1868 (81 year) |
| Place of death | Paris |
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| Genre | painting master, portrait painter |
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| Style | non-classicalism |
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Biography
Born in Paris in 1786. In 1813, he won the Rome Prize , receiving a scholarship to study painting. He achieved first success at the Paris Salon of 1819 for the work of L'Amour et Psyché ( Louvre ). He continued to exhibit at the Salon in 1839.
In 1836, François Édouard Picot was elected to the Paris Academy; earlier, in 1832, he became an officer of the Legion of Honor .
Creativity
Having received in 1813 a large Rome Prize , he studied in Italy , where he painted the picture “Cupid and Psyche” (1817), which marked the beginning of his fame. In the works of the first time of his activity, what, for example, “Raphael and Fornarin” (1822), “Orest, falling asleep in the arms of Electra” (1822; in the Louvre Museum) and “Annunciation”, he showed, in comparison with the followers of the then dominant school David more simplicity and naturalness in the composition, more warmth and brilliance in color, more softness and pleasantness in the overall impression. When the romantic direction arose in French painting, Picot joined him and began to strive in his works to reconcile the warmth of feeling and picturesqueness with the purity and severity of style; but he did not have sufficient strength to fully achieve this goal. Nevertheless, he became one of the prominent luminaries of the romantic school and brought an important benefit to French art by forming many students, among whom were such artists as Peel , Cabanel , Bouguereau , Lenev, Benouville, G. Moreau, E. Levy and etc. Since 1836 he was a member of the French Institute. The most important works of this artist belong to the monumental painting; of these, the allegoric plafond in one of the halls of the Versailles Museum, two such plafonds in the Louvre Gallery and wall paintings in the Paris churches of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (“The Heavenly Crown of the Virgin”), St. Vincent de Paul ("Christ and the Apostles"), St. Merry ("St. Genoveva takes a vow of virginity") and others; from other works Pico should point to the pictures: “The Taking of Cala Hertz. Guise in 1558 "(in the Versailles Gallery) and" Episode of the Plague in Florence "(in the Grenoble Museum); besides, he wrote many beautiful portraits.
Pupils
- Isidore Pils
- Alexander Cabanel
- William Bouguereau
- Jules Eugene Leneve
- Leon Benuvil
- Gustave Moreau
- Emil Levy
- Pierre Adolf Baden
- Charles-Alexander Kroc
Paintings
- Cupid and Psyche (1817)
- "Raphael and Fornarin" (1822)
- "Orest, falling asleep in the arms of Electra" (1822)
- Leda (1832)
- “Taking Cala Hertz. Guise of 1558
- "The Episode of the Plague in Florence"
Gallery
Cupid and Psyche (1817).
Leda (1832).
The capture of Kale Hertz. Guise in 1558
- ↑ AGORHA