Frédéric Villot
Illustration — Marie-Joseph Frédéric Villot Marie-Joseph Frédéric Villot (31 October 1809 – 27 May 1875) was a French printmaker and friend of the prominent Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, was also an art historian, who served as paintings curator of the Louvre Museum from 1848 to 1861. Frédéric Villot was born at Liège, a possession of the Napoleonic Empire, he died in Paris.
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Frédéric Villot
Frédéric Villot / Manner of Eugène Delacroix · photo Shonagon 2017-05-11 · Public domain
- Born
- 1809 · Liège.
- Died
- 1875 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
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- art historian · printmaker · curator · painter · copper engraver
- Languages
- French
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Frédéric Villot (31 October 1809 – 27 May 1875) was an art collector, woodcarver, etcher, painter, printmaker and copperplate engraver.
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The birth of Frédéric Villot is recorded on 31 October 1809 in Liège, Belgium, and the death on 27 May 1875 in Paris.
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1809
Frédéric Villot born at Liège.
1875
Frédéric Villot died at Paris.
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- 1.Lettre de Frédéric Villot au journal Le Moniteur, citée par Nathalie Volle dans Les Noces de Cana de Véronèse, éd. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1992.
- 2.Eugène Delacroix, Journal, 1822-1863, Plon, 1996.
- 3.Dans une lettre à Dutilleux, Delacroix donne son avis sur la restauration menée par le musée du Louvre : « La coloration jaune des vernis accumulés par le temps, qui s’étendait également aux clairs, mettait une sorte de liaison entre ces clairs et ces ombres. Aujourd’hui la proportion est dérangée, c’est-à-dire que les ombres sont foncées et les clairs ont un éclat si vif, – celui que le peintre avait voulu y mettre, – que l’aspect des tableaux a quelque chose de métallique et de monotone, à cause de l’aspect uniformément sombre des parties ombrées. C’est, au reste, l’effet qui se produit presque constamment sur tous les dévernissages. Il serait à souhaiter qu’on ne vernît jamais. »
- 4.Cimetière du Centre
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Frédéric Villot is recorded as art historian, printmaker, curator, painter and copper engraver.
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