Édouard-Théophile Blanchard
Édouard-Théophile Blanchard (born April 18, 1844 in Paris , † October 24, 1879 ibid) was a French painter .
He came from a family of artists. His teachers François-Édouard Picot and Alexandre Cabanel at the Paris School of Art had a great influence on the young Blanchard. As early as 1868 he won the Prix de Rome , the most coveted award for art students, with the picture The Death of Astyanax . As a result, he spent a four-year stay from 1869 to 1872 in the Villa Medici of the Académie de France à Rome , when Ernest Hébert was the director there. He mainly painted landscapes and nudes as well as mythological subjects.
literature
- Émmanuel Schwartz (Ed.): The Legacy of Homer. Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-arts (“Dieu et Mortels”). University Press, New Haven, CT 2005, ISBN 0-3001-0918-0 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name)
The Death of Astyanax (1868)
Henri Regnault : Portrait of Blanchard (1869)
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| SURNAME | Blanchard, Édouard-Théophile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1879 |
| Place of death | Paris |