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Luc Olivier Merson

1846-1920

French Academic Painter and Illustrator

Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Paul Delaroche, Adolphe-William  Bouguereau, Pierre-Auguste  Cot,  and Jean Leon Gerome

Education - École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Cause of Death -  Old Age

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Description of Luc Olivier Merson's  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

 Luc Olivier Merson's  brooding pictures, painted in a lucid and meticulous style, had an extraordinary way of revealing a subjects sensual, "natural" qualities and yet, at the same time, create in the viewer an almost theatrical feeling of high drama.  He had an affinity with nature, especially its feral and ethereal aspects. Historical accuracy, blithe elegance, and  an ethereal atmosphere characterize his mystical painting style.

Principle Painters of Academic Classicism Movement

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 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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