Merry-Joseph Blondel

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Dispute between Minerva and Neptune on the Subject of Athens

Portrait of a Woman seated beneath a Tree

Merry-Joseph Blondel (Paris, July 5, 1781 - Paris, June 12, 1853) was a French neo-classic painter.

After a first training in the Dilh et Guerhard porcelain factory, he later was a painting student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won in 1803 Price of Rome with his painting Enée portant son père Anchise. He lived in Villa Médicis, in Rome, Italy, from 1809 to 1812, and won a gold award for his painting Mort de Louis XII. He then started a career as an interior decorator (Fontainebleau Castel, Brongniart Palace, Louvre Museum, Sénat).

He was elected member of Beaux-Arts Academy in 1832, after that he was nominated professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

Artist from France

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