Charles-Marie Bouton
Illustration — Interior view of the Colosseum • Illustration — Calvary Chapel in the Church of St. Roch (1817) Charles Marie Bouton (16 May 1781 – 28 June 1853) was a French painter. A student of Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Victor Bertin and the first French panorama painter Pierre Prévost, he concentrated mostly on the perspective and the art of distributing light and was thus led to the invention of the Diorama, which he shares the honor with Jacques Daguerre.
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Charles-Marie Bouton
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- Born
- 1781. · Paris.
- Died
- 1853. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Interior view of the Colosseum • Illustration — Calvary Chapel in the Church of St. Roch (1817) Charles Marie Bouton (16 May 1781 – 28 June 1853) was a French painter. A student of Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Victor Bertin and the first French panorama painter Pierre Prévost, he concentrated mostly on the perspective and the art of distributing light and was thus led to the invention of the Diorama, which he shares the honor with Jacques Daguerre.
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Among his paintings are Souterrains de Saint-Denis (1810), Vue de la cathédrale de Chartres (1833), and an Interior view of the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (1842).
The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting, art of drawing and metal engraving. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Charles-Marie Bouton is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée Carnavalet, Beaux-Arts de Paris and Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau.
Charles-Marie Bouton is recorded as lithographer, painter, draftsperson, printmaker and theatre designer. Recognition and collections.
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1781
Charles-Marie Bouton born at Paris.
1853
Charles-Marie Bouton died at Paris.
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- Pierre Defer, General Catalogue of auctions of paintings and prints from 1737 to the present day, Paris, Aubry, 1868, 90–3.
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