Louis André Gabriel Bouchet was born in Paris, France in 1759 and died in 1842. He was a pupil of the well-known neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. Bouchet specialized in history and portrait painting and won the Prix de Rome in 1797 for The Death of Cato of Utica, a painting depicting the death of an ancient Roman statesman who committed suicide when Julius Caesar became head of the Republic.
In 1817, Bouchet exhbited a painting at the Salon of 1817, which may have been Madame H. and Her Children. According to Robert Rosenblum, "The previous Salon was 1814, so if he painted the picture in 1815, the 1817 Salon was the first in which he could show it." At the time of the Salon of 1817, Bouchet either lived or had a studio at the palais de l'Institut de France.
Other works by Bouchet include: Danielet les deux vieillards, Un Spartiate donnant des arms à son fils, and L'entrevue de Saint Anotoine et de Saint Paul dans le desert. Homère chantant ses poesies, hangs at the Musée d'Angers. L'Innocence cédant aux seductions hangs at the Musée de Compiègne. Montor et Télémaque (Hazaël rendant Mentor à Télémaque) hangs at the Musée de Grenoble. A portrait of Napoleon I painted by Bouchet hangs in Versailles.
Bouchet's Three Sisters was acquired by the Detroit Institute of the Arts in 1955 from Leo M. Butzel. Bouchet's Family Group acquired by the DIA in 1927 from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb.
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oil painting
French
oil painting
Paris, France
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