Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny

Terrace at the Lake Maggiore. Now at the Musée départemental de l'Oise in Beauvais.

Claude François Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny, a French landscape-painter, was born at Chaumes (Nièvre) in 1798. He went to Paris in 1808, studied painting under Regnault and Watelet, and made his debut in 1822 with an historical landscape on the subject of 'Daphnis and Chloe;' and this style of art, now much neglected, he constantly followed. He obtained a medal of the first class in 1837, and the decoration of the Legion of Honour in 1842. His 'View of Genazzano. Environs of Rome,' and 'View of Royat, France,' were sent by the French Government to the International Exhibition of 1862. Aligny died at Lyons in 1871, while holding the post of Director of the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Among his most important works may be cited:

The Infant Bacchus educated by the Nymphs of Naxos, 1848.

• Amiens. Museum. The Good Samaritan. 1834.
• Besançon. Museum. Christ at Emmaus. 1837.
• Bordeaux. Museum. The Infant Bacchus educated by the Nymphs of Naxos. 1848. (pictured)
• Caen. Museum. Death of Du Guesclin. 1838.
• Carcassonne. Museum. Hercules and the Hydra. 1842.
• Nantes. Museum. The Entrance of the Village of Corpo di Cava, between Naples and Salerno.
• Paris. S.-Paul.-S.-Louis. Landscape, with Baptism of Christ.
• Paris. Saint-Étienne-du-Mont. Two Landscapes with Biblical subjects.
• Rennes. Museum. Landscape, with a Monk at Prayer. 1839.

He likewise etched a series of ten views of the most celebrated sites of ancient Greece.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CARUELLE DALIGNY, Claude François Théodore" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Caruelle Daligny, Theodore
Alternative names
Short description	Painter
Date of birth	1798
Place of birth	Saint-Aubin-des-Chaumes, Nièvre, France
Date of death	1871
Place of death	Lyon, France