Émile Signol

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Émile Signol (March 11, 1804 – October 4, 1892) was a French artist who painted

genre works. Although he lived during the Romantic period, he espoused an austere neoclassicism and was hostile to Romanticism.[1]

Biography

Signol was born in Paris. He studied under

Grand Prix de Rome in 1830. Signol had won the grand prize for the same competition's painting category with Titulus Crucis.[3]

In 1842 he painted The Death of Saphira for the

Saint-Sulpice church in Paris.[2]

He was made a Knight of the

Legion of Honor in 1841, and an Officer in 1865.[2]

Elected in 1860, he held a first seat position at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1862, Pierre-Auguste Renoir studied under Signol and Charles Gleyre across from the École du Louvre at the École des Beaux-Arts. Signol and Gleyre taught Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ in 1861.

Signol died in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise in 1892.

Émile Signol, Dagobert I, king of Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy, oil on canvas, 1842, 90 × 72 cm. Musée National des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

Selected works

  • The Abduction of Psyche
  • Réveil du Juste, Réveil du Méchant Angers (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers)
  • Godfrey of Bouillon
  • La Théologié
  • Titulus Crucis
  • Portrait of
    Berlioz
     (1832)
  • Saint Bernard preaching the Second Crusade before King Louis VII, his queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Abbot Suger, at Vézelay in Burgundy, March 31, 1146 (1840)
  • Le Christ et la femme adultère (1840)
  • Dagobert I (1842; Museo Nazionale del Castello e di Trianons, Versailles)
  • Prise de Jérusalem par les Croisés, 15 Juillet 1099 (1847)
  • The Trial Of Calumny
  • Apotre Guerissant Un Malade Par L'Imposition Des Mains

Notes

  1. ^ Schwartz, p. 336.
  2. ^ a b c d e Viardot, p. 59.
  3. ISBN 0521485487

References

External links

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