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Pierre-Auguste Cot
1837-1883
The Greatest 19th-Century French Romantic Academic Painter of All Time
Artistically and Stylistically Influenced by the following Painters and Art Movements: - Neoclassicism, Rococo style, Classical Greek Art, William Bouguereau and Jacques-Louis David,
Education - l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, he studied under William Bouguereau
Cot was awarded first prize by L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1863
Medium - oil on linen
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Description of
Pierre-Auguste Cot's Romantic Academic Classicism Painting
Style
Followers of this
movement were influenced
by the high standards of
the French Académie des
Beaux-Arts, which
practiced under the
movements of
Neoclassicism
and
Romanticism.
Academic Classicism
attempted to merge both
techniques to create the
perfect style. It is
characterized by
adhering to a strict
manner of painting,
following narrow
compositional rules and
delicacy of color.
The atmospheric effects are
sumptuously luminescent.
According to art historian,
Walter Pater
"To
produce such effects at
all requires all the
resources of painting,
with its power of
indirect expression, of
subordinate but
significant detail, its
atmosphere, its
foregrounds and
backgrounds."
Subject matter often used in Rococo art such historical and genre pictures was fashionable once again. This style favored interpretations of Greek, Roman and Renaissance themes. Imagery often centered around Biblical stories, Arthurian legends and mythology. According to Solomon Gessner, the great German painter and art historian, "By studying the works of Greek sculptors the painter can attain the sublimest conceptions of beauty, and learn what must be added to nature in order to give to the imitation dignity and propriety.
About the Painter
A diligent painter, Pierre-Auguste Cot woke at dawn, painted while there was good light. His paintings showed great originality, merging his conventional classical interests with innocent sensuality. He painted from live models, scouring the French countryside for the most beautiful milkmaids and shop girls magnificent paintings.
Associated Painters
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1817-1900
Adolphe-William Bouguereau1825-1905
Charles Emile August Carolus-Duran, 1837-1917
Leon Francois Comerre, 1850-1916
Pierre-Auguste Cot 1837-1883
Thomas Couture, 1815-1879
Paul Delaroche 1797-1856
Eugene Fromentin, 1820-1876
Jean Leon Gerome, 1824-1904
Jean-Paul Laurens1838-1921
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, 1839-1929
Luc Olivier Merson, 1846-1920
Hans Makart, 1840 - 1884
Giulio Rosati, 1858-1917
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1805-1873
William Clarke Wontner, 1857-1930
Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1822-1896
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