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          Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school.!

          Merry-Joseph Blondel

          French painter (1781–1853)

          Merry-Joseph Blondel (French pronunciation:[mɛʁiʒozɛfblɔ̃dɛl]; 25 July 1781 – 12 June 1853) was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school.

          Explore Merry-Joseph Blondel's biography, achievements, artworks, auction results, and shows on Artsy.

        1. Explore Merry-Joseph Blondel's biography, achievements, artworks, auction results, and shows on Artsy.
        2. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Picasso, Matisse and other modernists.
        3. Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school.
        4. French Neoclassical painter.
        5. Merry Joseph Blondel - Hecuba and Polixena - c - Los Angeles County Museum of Art. May be an image of 1 person.

          6. He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803. After the Salon of 1824, he was bestowed with the rank of Knight in the order of the Legion d'Honneur by Charles X of France and offered a professorship at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts: a position in which he remained until his death in 1853.

          In 1832, he was elected to a seat at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[1]

          Blondel was a student of the Neoclassical master Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault and from 1809, a lifelong friend of the painter Ingres.[2]

          For much of Blondel's painting career, he was occupied with public commissions for paintings and frescoes in important buildings, including palaces, museums and churches.

          Blondel completed major commissions for the Palace of Fon