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François Bouchot (the 29th of November 1800 - the 7th of February 1842) was a French painter and engraver known for history painting and royal commissions. He won the Prix de Rome in 1823 and carried out several commissions for King Louis-Philippe, including paintings of the Second Battle of Zurich and the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
Yes, François Bouchot won the Prix de Rome in 1823, after placing second in 1822. He arrived at the French Academy in Rome in 1824 and remained in Italy for seven years.
François Bouchot married Francesca Lablache (1816-1901), the daughter of the comic opera singer Luigi Lablache, whose portrait Bouchot had painted. They had no children. Shortly before his death, Francesca left him for the German painter Henri Lehmann.
Bouchot showed his painting of the Coup of 18 Brumaire at the Salon of 1840. It received a special display on that occasion, coinciding with the return of Napoleon's ashes to France. The work later moved from the Louvre to the palace at Versailles.
Bouchot died suddenly on the 7th of February 1842, at age forty-one. He had been preparing murals for a new chapel at Luxembourg Palace at the time. The cause of his death was apparently never recorded.
Bouchot studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, where his primary instructors were Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Jules Richomme. He also frequented the studio of Guillaume Guillon-Lethière.