Curated playlist
Painters from Paris
- Claude MonetImpressionism began as a critic's insult. Claude Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise gave it the name.
- François BouchotFrançois Bouchot died in 1842 while preparing murals for a new chapel at Luxembourg Palace.
- Édouard ManetÉdouard Manet's judge father planned law or the navy for him, but he became a painter.
- Édouard CibotAround 1863, painter Édouard Cibot walked away from church art to paint landscapes.
- Gustave MoreauGustave Moreau asked that flowers for his funeral go to another woman's grave.
- Jacques-Louis DavidNapoleon never sat for David's painting of his own coronation. Pope Pius VII did, and blessed the painter.
- Jean-Baptiste DebretPainter Jean-Baptiste Debret helped design the first flag for an independent Brazil. He worked with Jose Bonifacio.
- Édouard DetailleÉdouard Detaille was described as the "semi-official artist of the French army," a label very few painters have ever earned. Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille was born on the 5th of October 1848 and died on the 23rd of December 1912. In those…
- Antoine-Jean GrosPainter Antoine-Jean Gros drowned himself in a river outside Paris after reading reviews of his final exhibition.
- Horace VernetHorace Vernet was born inside the Louvre while his parents sheltered there during the French Revolution.
- François GérardFrançois Gérard painted for Napoleon, then for the kings who replaced him. He served both regimes as court painter.
- Paul DelarochePaul Delaroche stopped showing his paintings in public in 1837, when he was one of France's most celebrated painters.
- Louis Carrogis CarmontelleLouis Carrogis Carmontelle built a machine that rolled painted landscapes past a backlit window.