François Bouchot

François Bouchot
Possible self-portrait (1824-1831)
Born	29 November 1800 Paris
Died	7 February 1842 Paris

François Bouchot (1800–1842) was a French painter and engraver.

Biography

He studied at the

In 1822, he came in second at the Prix de Rome. He won the following year and arrived at the French Academy in Rome in 1824. That same year, he sent his first painting back to France, where it was exhibited at the Salon. He would remain in Italy for seven years.

Back in France, he was named a Knight of the

Sometime in the late 1830s, he married Francesca Lablache (1816-1901). daughter of the comic opera singer Luigi Lablache, whose portrait he had painted. They had no children. Shortly before his death, she left him to join her lover, the German painter Henri Lehmann, in Italy. A year later, she married the pianist Sigismond Thalberg.^[2]

He was preparing to paint murals for a new chapel at Luxembourg Palace, when he died suddenly. The cause of his death was apparently not recorded and what, if any, relationship it may have had to his wife's affair is unknown.

Selected works

• 
  Detail from The Battle of Zurich
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  Jacques François Dugommier
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  Napoleon at the Council of Five Hundred
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  Luigi Lablache
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  The Wounded Drummer

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bouchot, François". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

Media related to François Bouchot at Wikimedia Commons