François Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle

François Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Horace Vernet and Jean-Victor Bertin is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by François Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle is recorded in the collections of Musée de l'Histoire de France, Musée Carnavalet, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Palace of Versailles and Hungarian National Gallery.

He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Horace Vernet and Jean-Victor Bertin at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. His debut at the Paris came in 1824, with a scene depicting the invention of the lyre. Over the next few years, he became a regular annual contributor, with a profusion of subjects, based on his extensive travels to Spain, Italy, North Africa and Turkey. He also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle (1855) Despite these scenes, ranging from the tragic to the picturesque, to the humorous, most were judged to have little merit. His high regard stems largely from his portraits, in the gallery at the Palace of Versailles, representing Napoléon III, Admiral Henri de Rigny, Anne-Charles Lebrun (Duc de Plaisance) and many other prominent figures. He is also known for his decorative paintings at the churches of Saint-Merri and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, as well as designing costumes for a performance of Robert le Diable, by Giacomo Meyerbeer, at the Paris Opera in 1835. The genre painter, Philipp Arons, is one of his more notable students. His works may be seen at the Bibliothèque-musée de l'Opéra, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée du Domaine départemental de Sceaux and Musée de l'Histoire de France

• Illustration — The trio in act 5 of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable with (from left to right): Nicolas Levasseur as Bertram, Adolphe Nourrit as Robert, and Cornélie Falcon as Alice, 1835 • Illustration — Louis-Alexandre Berthier, field marshal, chief of staff in 1792 (1753-1815), 1834 • Illustration — Girl from Frascati in festive costume, 1839 • Illustration — Colonel George Fergusson Henry, honorary Bey at the Sultan's court • Illustration — Princess Maria Elizabeth Amalie Franziska Wagram of Bavaria (1784–1849), Princess Wagram, 1832 • Illustration — Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869) modeling the bust of Lépaulle

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

The following is established of origins and background. Lépaulle died in 1886 at Aÿ. It is also recorded that françois Gabriel Guillaume Lépaulle was born in 1804 at Versailles.

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