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Louis Nicolas Matout (19 March 1811, in Renwez – 24 January 1888, in Paris) was a French painter and muralist. He was known primarily for cityscapes with figures and genre scenes.

Self-portrait (date unknown)
Self-portrait (date unknown)

Biography


He was from a family of modest means but, thanks to the generosity of an architect he met at a construction site where he was employed, he was able to gain admission to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.

His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1833 and he would continue to have showings there until 1879. A major commission came his way in 1852, when the Minister of Finance, Achille Fould, engaged him to create a painting on the subject of Dr. Ambroise Paré performing a ligature, to replace a dilapidated fresco painted by Esprit Antoine Gibelin [fr] in 1778, along with the two frescoes that framed it, in the Grand Amphithéâtre of the Faculté de médecine de Paris. The two adjoining frescoes were replaced with tableaux of Lanfranc and Pierre-Joseph Desault. These and the remaining frescoes by Gibelin were destroyed by a fire in 1889.

The publicity engendered by this project led to several other public works, notably at St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, the Church of Saint-Merri and the Church of Saint-Sulpice. Later, he worked at the Cathedral of St Philippe in Algiers (now the Ketchaoua Mosque), La Rochelle Cathedral and Angoulême Cathedral.[1] He had a major showing at the Exposition Universelle (1867). He was named a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor in 1857.[2]

His works may be seen at the Louvre, the Musée Fesch and at numerous small museums throughout France.


Selected paintings



References


  1. Lettre manuscrite achetée par les Archives Départementales des Ardennes, consultable sous la cote 1 J 1053, Online
  2. Dossier @ the Base Leonore

Further reading





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Louis Matout né à Renwez (Ardennes) le 19 mars 1811 et mort à Paris le 24 janvier 1888 est un peintre français.



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