Esquisse pour le panneau central (INV2626) du plafond de l'ancienne antichambre d'Henri II peint en 1822, déposé en 1953 (remplacé par les Oiseaux de Braque)

Location:

musée du Louvre

About the author(s)

Author:

Merry Joseph Blondel

Born:

25th Jul, 1781

Dead:

12th Jun, 1853

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Merry-Joseph Blondel (25 July 1781 – 12 June 1853) 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, … Read more...