Louis-Auguste Lapito
Illustration — Landscape Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne Louis-Auguste Lapito (born Joinville-le-Pont, August 18, 1803 - died Boulogne-sur-Seine, April 7, 1874) was a French painter. He exhibited at many Paris Salons. He was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1836, and a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold as well.
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Louis-Auguste Lapito
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- Born
- 1803 · Joinville-le-Pont.
- Died
- 1874 · Boulogne-Billancourt.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · watercolorist
- Teachers
- Louis Etienne Watelet · François Joseph Heim
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Born at Joinville-le-Pont in 1803, died in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1874.
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Louis-Auguste Lapito was a watercolourist and painter, born in 1803 in Joinville-le-Pont and died in 1874. Both events are recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Training under Louis Etienne Watelet and François Joseph Heim is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Louis-Auguste Lapito is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dordrechts Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne, Nationalmuseum and Musée Salies. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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- 1.Louis-Auguste Lapito (1803-1874) Forêt de Fontainebleau, soleil couchant. musee-peintres-barbizon.fr.
- 2.Alexis Bordes. Louis-Auguste Lapito (Joinville-le-Pont 1803 – Boulogne-sur-Seine 1874) « Paysage animé de personnages et d’un lac dans les montagnes suisses » et « Paysage de montagne animé de personnages sur un chemin ». alexis-bordes.com. 2020.
- 3.Louis-Auguste Lapito Vue de la forêt de Fontainebleau, « Les Quatre Fils Aymon », 1846. musee-paul-dini.com.
- 4.Louis-Auguste Lapito - La Corniche de Gênes. museedevalence.fr.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie, Louis Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours : architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes, , Paris, Librairie Renouard, 1882, (En ligne sur Gallica).
- Histoire de la peinture en Corse aux XIXe et XXe siècles et dictionnaire des peintres. Colonna édition. 2010. 978-2-915922-36-3.
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