Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school. He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803.
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Aeneas rescuing his father from Troy, oil on canvas, 1803
Hecuba and Polyxena, oil on canvas, after 1814
Napoleon visiting the Palais Royal for the opening of the Tribunat in 1807, oil on canvas
Portrait of Madame Blondel (1849), oil on canvas
The fall of Icarus, ceiling fresco, Palais du Louvre
La France victorious at Bouvines, Palais du Louvre
Copy after Blondel of painting lost on the RMS Titanic in 1912Awards 2
Artists from France 6
About this person
Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school. He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803. After the Salon of 1824, he was bestowed with the rank of Knight in the order of the Legion d'Honneur by Charles X of France and offered a professorship at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts: a position in which he remained until his death in 1853. In 1832, he was elected to a seat at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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deceased
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Lived 1781 to 1853 · aged 71
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