(b Toulouse, 1 Oct 1757; d Toulouse, 27 Dec 1847). French painter and printmaker. He was trained by the Toulouse painter Pierre Rivalz and in 1778 won the Prix de Rome with the Murder of Philip of Macedon (Paris, Ecole B.-A.). He was at the Acad?mie de France in Rome during the crucial period in the development of French Neo-classical painting when Joseph-Marie Vien was director and Jacques-Louis David a student there. After his return to France in 1782, his career in the provinces progressed smoothly in spite of the political upheavals surrounding the French Revolution. He was director (?1783-6) of the Ecoles de la Soci?t? des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and in 1787 was admitted to the Toulouse Acad?mie. He contributed regularly to the Acad?mie's exhibitions and from 1791 to 1797 played a key role in training Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who was to remain a life-long friend. Under the Empire (1804-15) he was appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse; gaining further recognition from the works he submitted to the Paris Salon from 1773 to 1810, he became a corresponding member of the Institut and Chevalier of the L?gion d'honneur.
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