Louis Joseph César Ducornet

Louis Joseph César Ducornet (January 10, 1806 in Lille – April 27, 1856 in Paris) was a French painter.

Ducornet was born without arms; he painted using his foot. He studied under François Louis Joseph Watteau and Guillaume Guillon-Lethière. He painted biblical and historical scenes, as well as portraits.

Biography

Louis Joseph César Ducornet, a French historical painter, was born of poor parentage at Lille, in 1806. Ho was deformed from his birth, having neither arms nor thighs, and only four toes to his right foot. While still a child, he used to pick up pieces of charcoal from the floor with his toes, and the rough sketches he thus made evinced so much promise that he received some local instruction. By the help of the municipality of Lille, he was sent to Paris, where he studied under Lethière and Gérard, and for a short time received a government pension. He died in Paris in 1856. Amongst his chief pictures are:

• Repentance. 1828.
• The Parting of Hector and Andromache. {Lille Museum.)
• St. Louis administering Justice. {Lille Museum.)
• Death of Mary Magdalen. 1840. {St. André, Lille.)
• The Repose in Egypt. 1841.
• Christ in the Sepulchre. 1843.
• Edith finding the body of Harold. 1855.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "DUCORNET, Louis César Joseph" 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	Ducornet, Louis Joseph Cesar
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Date of birth	January 10, 1806
Place of birth	Lille
Date of death	April 27, 1856
Place of death	Paris