Merry-Joseph Blondel

Merry-Joseph Blondel
Birth name	Merry-Joseph Blondel
Born	July 25, 1781(1781-07-25) Paris, France
Died	June 12, 1853(1853-06-12) (aged 71) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Field	Painting
Movement	Neo-Classical

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.

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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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Name	Blondel, Merry-Joseph
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Date of birth	July 25, 1781
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death	June 12, 1853
Place of death	Paris, France