Émile Signol (March 11, 1804 – October 4, 1892) was a French artist who painted history paintings, portraits, and genre works. Although he lived during the Romantic period, he espoused an austere neoclassicism and was hostile to Romanticism.

Biography

Signol was born in Paris. He studied under Blondel and Gros.Viardot, p. 59. He made his Salon debut in 1824 with a painting of ''Joseph Recounting His Dream to His Brothers''. He painted a portrait of Hector Berlioz at the

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, during the composer's stay upon his winning the

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in 1830. Signol had won the grand prize for the same competition's painting category with ''Titulus Crucis''.Bloom, Peter (1998)
''The Life of Berlioz''
p. 8. Cambridge University Press. In 1842 he painted ''The Death of Saphira'' for the

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, and was subsequently commissioned to decorate the churches of Saint Roch, Saint Sévérin, Saint Eustace, and Saint Augustin. Four of his paintings are housed at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1841, and an Officer in 1865. Elected in 1860, he held a first seat position at the

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in Paris. In 1862, Pierre-Auguste Renoir studied under Signol and

Charles Gleyre Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre (2 May 1806 – 5 May 1874), was a Swiss artist who was a resident in France from an early age. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including H ...

across from the

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at the École des Beaux-Arts. Signol and Gleyre taught Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ in 1861. Signol died in

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in 1892.

Emile Signol (1804-1892) - Dagobert Ier roi d'Austrasie de Neustrie et de Bourgogne (mort en 638)

Selected works

* ''The Abduction of Psyche'' * ''Réveil du Juste, Réveil du Méchant Angers'' ( Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers) * ''Godfrey of Bouillon'' * '' La Théologié'' * ''

Titulus Crucis The Titulus Crucis (Latin for "Title of the Cross") is a piece of wood kept in the Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome which is claimed to be the (title panel) of the True Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. It is venerated by s ...

'' * ''Portrait of Berlioz'' (1832) * ''Saint Bernard preaching the Second Crusade before King Louis VII, his queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Abbot Suger, at Vézelay in Burgundy, March 31, 1146'' (1840) * ''Le Christ et la femme adultère'' (1840) * ''

Dagobert I Dagobert I ( la, Dagobertus; 605/603 – 19 January 639 AD) was the king of Austrasia (623–634), king of all the Franks (629–634), and king of Neustria and Burgundy (629–639). He has been described as the last king of the Merovingian dyna ...

'' (1842; Museo Nazionale del Castello e di Trianons, Versailles) * ''Prise de Jérusalem par les Croisés, 15 Juillet 1099'' (1847) * ''The Trial Of Calumny'' * ''Apotre Guerissant Un Malade Par L'Imposition Des Mains''

Notes

References

* Schwartz, Emmanuel (2005). ''The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris''. Yale University Press. * Viardot, Louis (1883). ''The masterpieces of French art illustrated: being a biographical history of art in France, from the earliest period to and including the Salon of 1882, Volume 1''
The Hector Berlioz Website

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Signol, Emile 1804 births 1892 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Prix de Rome for painting Members of the Académie des beaux-arts 19th-century painters of historical subjects 19th-century French male artists