Education
Born at Angers, he studied at the école des Beaux-Arts, and later he was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot in Paris.
Born at Angers, he studied at the école des Beaux-Arts, and later he was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot in Paris.
He entered the École nationale. After winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Rome to complete his education. He was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1873 to 1878.
In 1900, 2 years after his death, a monument to him was put up in the courtyard of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, and a pedestrianised street in Angers was later named after him.