Pierre Révoil

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Pierre Révoil
Pierre Révoil (1797), in a portrait by Jean-Michel Grobon
Born
Pierre Henri Révoil

(1776-06-12)12 June 1776
Lyon, France
Died19 March 1842(1842-03-19) (aged 65)
Paris, France
Known forPainting
MovementRomanticism

Pierre Henri Révoil (12 June 1776 – 19 March 1842) was a French painter in the troubadour style.

Biography

He was born in

École des Beaux-arts.[1]

Initially, he found himself fascinated by

Greek vase paintings and found some notoriety for his scenes of the Revolution. He also did many large-scale religious paintings, but soon focused almost exclusively on historical scenes from the Middle Ages
, in what would later be somewhat derisively called the "Troubadour Style".

Henry IV and His Children
(before 1825)

In 1802, when Napoleon, laid the foundation stones for the Place Bellecour, Révoil celebrated the occasion with a large allegorical drawing, "Napoleon Rebuilding the Town of Lyon", which became the basis for a painting exhibited at the Salon in 1804.[1] Three years later, he was named a Professor in the École des beaux-arts at the palais Saint-Pierre (now the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon).

By 1811 he had amassed a huge collection of Medieval armor, chests, vases, wall hangings, paintings and manuscripts. This personal museum was used as a teaching tool for his students at the École. By this time, it was also quite famous and was described in detail for the Magasin encyclopédique [fr] by Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison. He also wrote Medieval-style chansons, some of which became popular in the Lyon region.

The Convalescence of Bayard (1817)

When the

Claude Bonnefond, Hippolyte Flandrin and Victor Orsel. In 1828, he donated his collection to the Louvre[2] and had just finished transferring it to Paris when the July Revolution broke out. This put an end to his career and he left for Provence again, never to return to Lyon. Years later, alone and penniless, he moved into a loft on the Rue de Seine
in Paris, where he died.

His sister was the poet Louise Colet and his son, Henri Révoil, was a well-known architect who restored many churches and other public buildings.

References

  1. ^ a b Web Gallery: Brief biography
  2. ^ Larousse: Brief biography

Further reading

  • Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, La Peinture Troubadour, deux artistes lyonnais, Pierre Révoil (1776–1842),
    Arthéna
    , Paris, 1980.
  • Louis Courajod, La Collection Révoil du Musée du Louvre, Caen, Le Blanc Hardel, 1886.
  • Michel Philibert Genod, Mémoires de l’académie impériale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon, Paris, Lyon, Durand, Brun, 1863.
  • Charles Gabet (1793–1860), Dictionnaire des artistes de l'École française du XIXe siècle, de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, dessin, litographie et composition musicale , Paris, 1831.

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