Louis Lamothe
Illustration — Self-portrait (1859), Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Louis Lamothe (1822–1869) was a French academic artist born in Lyon. He is remembered today primarily as the teacher of several more renowned artists, notably Edgar Degas, Elie Delaunay, Henry Lerolle, Henri Regnault, and James Tissot. Lamothe was a pupil of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.
Louis Lamothe
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- Born
- 1822. · Lyon.
- Died
- 1869. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- history.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Teachers
- Hippolyte Flandrin.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Self-portrait (1859), Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Louis Lamothe (1822–1869) was a French academic artist born in Lyon. He is remembered today primarily as the teacher of several more renowned artists, notably Edgar Degas, Elie Delaunay, Henry Lerolle, Henri Regnault, and James Tissot. Lamothe was a pupil of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin.
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Louis Lamothe (1822–1869) was a painter, of French nationality. The painter was born in Lyon and died in Paris.
Louis Lamothe was educated at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The painter worked for Beaux-Arts de Paris.
The work spans history and history painting. Languages used include French.
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Art historian Jean Sutherland Boggs describes him as a history painter "in a pious Christian tradition", and likens his "correct, moral, bourgeois, and even sanctimonious portraits" to those of Flandrin, whom Lamothe assisted in the decoration of the church of St-Martin-d'Ainay in 1855.
Louis Lamothe studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Hippolyte Flandrin is recorded. Edgar Degas and Henry Lerolle are recorded as having studied under Louis Lamothe. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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1822
Louis Lamothe born at Lyon.
1869
Louis Lamothe died at Paris.
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Lamothe, Louis, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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- 1.Thomson 1988, p.58; Getty Union List of Artist Names: Louis Lamothe.
- 2.Baumann, Karabelnik et al. 1994, p. 87.
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Louis Lamothe studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained under Hippolyte Flandrin. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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