Merry-Joseph Blondel

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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 became a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. He won the prestigious 1803 Prix de Rome for his painting Enée portant son père Anchise. He lived in Villa Médicis in Rome from 1809 to 1812, and won a gold award for his painting Mort de Louis XII. He then began a career as an interior decorator, completing works at Fontainebleau Castle, Brongniart Palace, the Louvre Museum, and the Sénat.

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

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  Félicité de Constance

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  The Fall of Icarius (Louvre)

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  Louis XIV

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  Richard Coeur de Lion

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  The death of Hyacinthus

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