He was a pupil of François-Edouard Picot until he entered the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1837. From 1834 he exhibited at the Salon
many landscapes of the surroundings of Paris, Compiègne and Besançon
that were sometimes similar to the works of his friend Corot. These
landscapes were painted directly from nature and show his
considerable sensitivity to variations in light. In 1845 he won the
Prix de Rome for historical landscape with Ulysses and Nausicaa
(Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.), which was a great success with the
critics. He remained faithful for the rest of his career to the
French tradition of historical landscape inspired by Claude Lorrain
with works such as the Colosseum Seen from the Palatine (1870;
Paris, Louvre).
A bather in a forest
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