François Schommer

François Schommer studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Training under Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris and Rome. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Work by François Schommer is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Musée d'Orsay, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris and Beaux-Arts de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome, resident at the Villa Medici and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

He studied with Isidore Pils, Henri Lehmann and Jean Éloi Malenfant at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1870, and he would continue to exhibit there until his death. He also had showings with the Société des Artistes Français. In 1878, he was awarded first place in the Prix de Rome for his work "César-Auguste au tombeau d'Alexandre". Later, he received silver medals at the Exposition Universelle (1889) and the Exposition Universelle (1900). In 1910, he was named a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts and also served on the faculty at the Académie Julian. Marie Laforge, Ahmed Sabri, Henri-Alexandre Sollier and Sébastien Laurent were among his better known students. He became a member of the Institut de France in 1924. In addition to his canvases, he executed decorative paintings on the ceilings of the Sorbonne, the Hôtel de ville de Tours, the Hôtel de ville de Roubaix and the École des Beaux-Arts, as well as panels for the foyer at the théâtre de l'Odéon. He was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor in 1890, and was later promoted to Officer. He is interred at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. His works may be seen at the Musée de l'Armée and the Musée d'Orsay.