Background
Jérôme-Martin Langlois was born on March 11, 1779 in Paris, France.
Jérôme-Martin Langlois was born on March 11, 1779 in Paris, France.
He received his training in the studio of Jacques-Louis David, the leading Neoclassical French painter, and became one of his favorite students.
Langlois assisted on several of Jacques-Louis David's pictures, including "Napoleon crossing the Alps" (now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna), in which Langlois painted the horse, and "Leonidas at Thermopylae" (Musee du Louvre, Paris).
Since 1806 Langlois regularly exhibited at the Salon in Paris, France, until 1837. In 1824 he was in Brussel where he painted the portrait of Jacques-Louis David, which was exhibited in 1831.
Jérôme-Martin Langlois died on March 11, 1779 in Paris, France.
Langlois was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts shortly before his death.