Michel Dumas

Michel Dumas studied at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon and Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is recorded. François Guiguet and Tony Tollet are recorded as having studied under Michel Dumas. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome, Paris and Lyon. Employment is recorded with École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. Work by Michel Dumas is recorded in the collections of Musée d'art et d'histoire de Langres. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and Knight of St.

Born in Lyon, he was a student of Claude Bonnefond and Jean-Michel Grobon at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a school where he would be a teacher himself, many years later. In 1834, he moved to Paris, where he worked in the studios of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. After Ingres moved to Rome, he became an assistant to Victor Orsel and Alphonse Périn at the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. He then joined Ingres in Italy, spending sixteen years in Rome before returning to Paris, where he specialized in religious art. Later, he went back to Lyon, to take the position of Director at his old alma mater. He was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor in 1884. He died in Lyon in 1885. His best known students include Tony Tollet and François Guiguet. His works may be seen at the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Langres, the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, and the Louvre, among several others.

Michel Dumas is recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and Knight of St. Dumas received Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and Knight of St.