Education
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
He was a pupil of Girodet. His religious and historical paintings are characterised by a style based on a careful study of the old masters, while his genre pieces are vigorous and lifelike. Amongst these latter may be noticed his "French Fish-Market" (1832) in the Berlin Gallery, and his "Gipsies Resting." Amongst the former may be named a "Christopher Columbus," a "Flight into Egypt," and an "Assumption of the Virgin." He died in 1875.