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Édouard Cibot (1799-1877) was a French historical and landscape painter born in Paris. He devoted the first part of his career to sacred and historical painting for Paris churches, then turned to landscape painting around 1863.
Cibot's most important work in his historical phase is the series of paintings representing Charity, located in the church of St. Leu in Paris. Among his landscape works, The Gouffre, near Seineport (1864) entered the Luxembourg Gallery.
Cibot's masters were Guérin and Picot, both figures in the French academic tradition. Their training shaped his early career in historical and religious painting.
Cibot applied himself to landscape painting around 1863. His landscape works include The Gouffre, near Seineport (1864) and View at Soisy-sur-Ecolle (1865).
Several of Cibot's sacred works remain in the churches of Paris, including the series representing Charity in the church of St. Leu. His landscape painting The Gouffre, near Seineport entered the Luxembourg Gallery.
Among Cibot's noted works are The Loves of the Angels (1835), Convicts in 1788 (1836), Regina Coeli (1846), St. Theresa (1847), Chestnut-trees at Aulnay (1855), Park at Orsay (1857), The Gouffre near Seineport (1864), and View at Soisy-sur-Ecolle (1865).