Charles-Antoine Flajoulot

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Charles-Antoine Flajoulot  (* 1774 in Besançon ; † September 15, 1840 there ) was a French painter .

Life

Flajoulot probably studied with  Jacques-Louis David . He was director of the École des Beaux-Arts de Besançon and also taught drawing at the Collège Royal de Besançon, where the young  Gustave Courbet and  Louis Pasteur were among his students. In a letter to his parents, Gustave Courbet mentions Flajoulot as “bon professeur” (“good teacher”). 

Paul Brune characterized Flajoulot as an "excentrique qui se proclamait le roi du dessin" ("eccentric who considered himself a master draftsman").

Portraits

  • Besançon, Musée des Beaux-arts et d'archéologie, portrait of Charles-Antoine Flajoulot by Édouard Baille (a portrait by Edouard Baille is on display in the Musée Gustave Courbet in Ornans)
  • Besançon cemetery, medallion by Jean-Paul-Paschal Franceschi

Works

Paul Brune performs:

In churches

  • Besançon, Chapel of the Asile départemental du Doubs, Saint Jean l'Aumônier distribuant son bien aux pauvres
  • Delain , Haute-Saône, La Conception de la Vierge , 1831
  • Franois , Doubs, La Nativité , copy after Annibale Carracci ; Saint Isidore , 1830

In museums

  • Besançon, Saint Jean l'Aumônier , sketch for the painting in the Asile du Doubs; Persée venant de délivrer Andromède, se lave les mains dans une fontaine , copy after  Jean-Baptiste Regnault

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Moreau: Louis Pasteur, de Besançon à Paris (L'envol) . Paris 2003, p. 132.
  2. ^ Paul Brune: Dictionnaire des artistes et ouvriers d'art de la Franche-Comté. Paris, Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie, Paris 1912, p. 98.

literature

  • Francis Wey : Melchior Wyrsch et les peintres Bisontins. Besançon 1861, p. 25.
  • Paul Brune: Dictionnaire des artistes et ouvriers d'art de la Franche-Comté. Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie, Paris 1912, p. 98 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Flajoulot, Charles-Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Besançon
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1840
Place of death Besançon