Aimé Nicolas Morot (16 June 1850 – 12 August 1913) was a French painter and sculptor in the

Academic Art Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie ...

style.

Biography

Aimé Nicolas Morot, son of François-Aimé Morot and Catherine-Elisabeth Mansuy, was born in Rue d'Amerval 4 in Nancy on 16 June 1850,E. Benezit, 1976. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Volume 7, p. 553. Librairie Gründ. Paris, France. . and spent his youth in Rue de la Colline in Boudonville.Anonymous, 24 August 1913. La Famille Morot
L'Immeuble et la Construction dans l'Est
p. 325 At age 12 he started his studies in drawing, painting and gravure printing at the l'Ecole Municipal de Dessin et de Peinture de Nancy under ThiéryAimé Nicolas Morot and Charles Moreau-Vauthier, 1906. ''L'oeuvre de Aimé Morot: membre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts''. Librairie Hachette et Cie., Paris. 7 p., 60 gravures, in folio.M. S. (1907). ''L'oeuvre de Aimé Morot (Ch. Moreau-Vauthier)''. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 49^e Année, 595^e Livraison, 3^e Periode. Tome XXXVII, p. 87-88. January issue, Paris. and the director of the school

Charles Sellier Charles Edward Sellier Jr. (November 9, 1943 – January 31, 2011) was an American television producer, screenwriter, novelist and director, best known for creating the American book and television series '' The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams' ...

.H. Vollmer, B.C. Kreplin, L. Scheewe, H. Wolff and O. Kellner, 1931. Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Moehring - Olivié 25th Edition (in German), Publ. Verlag von E.A. Seemann, Leipzig, Germany. He continued his studies in Nancy until the late 1860s and subsequently attended the workshop of

Alexandre Cabanel Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to ''Diccionario Enciclopedi ...

at the

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French '' grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Scien ...

in Paris,Dupont Vicars (Ed.), 1901
Master Painting's of the World
The White City Art Co. (Publ.), Chicago, Ill. 192 p. but could not study well in the noisy environment of Cabanel's workshop and left after having received two corrections by Cabanel. In the next two years he continued his studies independently studying in the Jardin des Plantes, where he developed his skills in observing and portraying animals. Despite his lack of attendance at the École, he won the Grand

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

in 1873 with his first submission, the

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(''Super Flumina Babylonis''),T. Child, 1890. French painters, some modern
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1889 - May 1890. New York, LXXX(480):817-842
which is currently in the collection of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The fellowship allowed him to travel to Italy and become a resident of the

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, where the

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was housed. Morot rarely set foot in his workshop in the Villa Medici, but still regularly produced paintings. His first submission to the

Salon de Paris The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

was awarded a third-class medal for the painting ''Spring (Printemps)'' in 1876.Outremer (1877). The Aldine 8(8):260, 263-264
/ref> In 1877 he was awarded a second-class medal for ''Médée'', for which a Roman woman called Victoria served as his model. He subsequently received a first-class medal in 1879 for ''Les Ambronnes'' and the Medal of Honour for ''The Good Samaritan'' in 1880,L.H. Hooper (1880). Art-Notes from Paris. The Schaus Purchases. The Prize Pictures at the Salon. The Art Journal (1875-1887), New Series 6:252-253.
/ref> competing against ''Joan of Arc'' by the realist painter

Jules Bastien-Lepage Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that emerged from the later phase of the Realist movement. His most famous work is his land ...

, who had also studied under Cabanel. According to Brauer (2013)Fae Brauer, 2013. Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 457 p. ''The Good Samaritan'' was a protest against the continued poor treatment of the Paris Communards after their defeat in 1871. Morot returned to Paris in 1880, where he met painter

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...

and married Suzanne-Mélanie Gérôme (1867-1941), one of the painter's four daughters, at the Mairie Drouot (Paris 9^eme Arrondissement, civil) and in the Sainte-Trinité church in 1887. Marriage witnesses included fellow painters

Fernand Cormon Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. Biograph ...

and

Charles Jalabert Charles François Jalabert (1819–1901) was a French painter in the academic painting, academic style. He rapidly gained renown as an artist among Parisian high society in the second half of the 19th century and attended the salon (gathering), ...

.Hippolyte Lesage (1895). Souvenirs d'un maire-adjoint de Paris: 1880-1895. Published by E. Flammarion. Paris. 326 p.
/ref> The family first lived in 18 rue de Chabrol, and in 1896 moved to a town house at 11 rue Weber, in Paris, the garden of which resembled a zoo housing snakes,J. Dubern (Ed.), 1895
Variété. La passion des bêtes
Le Messager de l'Ouest: journal de l'arrondissement de Sidi-Bel-Abbès. 24 September, Année 2 — N° 166. lions, panthers, leopards and other exotic animals.J. Tharaud and J. Tharaud, 1913. Aimé Morot, l'ami des bêtes
Journal de Monaco 2896. 16 September, p. 1-2.
/ref>L. Thornton (1990). Les Africanistes, peintres voyageurs: 1860-1960. Art Creation Realisation International Edition, Paris, France. 336 p. He had two children, a daughter Aimée Morot (1901-1958) and a son Jean-Léon Morot (1908-1961). Suzanne-Mélanie Morot modelled for paintings in 1897 and, together with her daughter, in 1904. One of Morot's last contributions to the French Artists' Salon de Paris was a painting of his children called ''Brother and Sister''
''Frere et Soeur''
in 1911.Léon Plée (1913). Aimé Morot: Peintre des corridas. Les Annales politiques et littéraires 1574, August 24. Paris.
/ref> Crucifixion-Morot

In the 1880s, Morot worked at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number ...

, where he was a colleague of

William-Adolphe Bouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...

(1825-1905) with whom he co-supervised the British cartoonist and illustrator Sir Leonard Raven-Hill (1867-1935) in 1885 and 1886. After

Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.'' ...

's death in 1898, he led Moreau's studio at the institute.

Theodor Pallady Theodor Pallady (; 11 April 1871 – 16 August 1956) was a Romanian painter. Biography Theodor Pallady was the son of Ioan Pallady and Maria Cantacuzino, the older sister of Romanian diplomat Neculai B. Cantacuzino. He was born in Iași, Romani ...

(1871-1956) and Gaston Hippolyte Ambroise Boucart ( fr) (1878-1962), former pupils of

, continued their studies under Aimé Morot. Charles Louis Auguste Weisser (Montbéliard, 1864-1940) was a student of both Aimé Morot and

.E. Benezit, 1976. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Volume 10, p. 682. Librairie Gründ. Paris, France. . Other French painters and engravers that were supervised by Morot were Hippolyte-Auguste Fauchon, (1853-1935), (1861-1943), Léon Fauché (1868-1951), (1879-1932) and Henry Jacquier (1878-1921). In 1900, he won the grand prix of the l' Exposition Universelle (Paris Exhibition) and in the same year became professor at the

in Paris. Henry Golden Dearth (Bristol, 1864), a bronze medal winner at the same Paris Exhibition of 1900, was one of his British students,American Art News 17(2):1-8
/ref> as were

Dawson Dawson-Watson Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864–1939) was a British-born Impressionist painter who became famous in 1927 for winning the largest cash prize in American art, the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibition. He was one of the first members of the famous ...

(1864-1939) and

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(1860-1932). His American apprentice artists included Benjamin Foster (1852-1926), Edmund Clarence Messer (1842-1919; elected Principal of Corcoran School of Art in 1902),

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(1850-1899), George Henry Bogert (1864-1944), Georgia Timken Fry (1864-1921), Eurilda Loomis France (1865-1931) and

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(1877-1962). Aime-Morot-Le-bon-Samaritain

In 1883 Morot was awarded the title of Chevalier (knight) in the

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Ministre du Commerce, 1883. Certificat d'inscription Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
/ref> and in 1901 he became Officier (officer) in the Légion d'Honneur.
/ref> As an academician and professor at the

who frequently exhibited at the French Artists' Salon in Paris and being a member of the painting jury, Aimé Morot was an influential person in the modern art centre of Paris, being among the 18 most influential members of the InstituteBureau du Livre d'Or des Peintres, 1906
Le livre d'Or des Peintres Exposants 1903-1905
3rd edition, Paris, 653 p. and was included in Grün's painting
One Friday at the French Artists' Salon
in 1911.F. Brauer, 2013. Rivals and Conspirators. The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. In 1912 he was awarded the distinction of Commandeur in the Légion d'Honneur.
/ref> ttp://www2.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH170/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL1942070V013.htm A. Morot, 1912. Receipt of decoration./ref> Morot contributed to the Salon until 1913 where he exposed a portrait of M. Paul Deschanel.Anonymous, 3 May 1913. Les Salons de 1913. L'Illustration 3662. Paris, France In 1910, Morot ordered the construction of a second house outside Paris, ''Maison dite Ker Arlette'' in

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, a coastal village in North-east Brittany. He lived there until his death after a lengthy illnessAnonymous, 1913. Le Peintre Aimé Morot. In section Documents et Informations, L'Illustration 3677.
/ref> on 12 August 1913.
/ref> His death mask was cast in bronze using

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by Fonderie Valsuani, with which he had collaborated for casting bronzes (e.g. ''Baigneuse debout'', ''Torse de femme''). Obituaries were published in the 13 August 1913 edition of

Gil Blas ''Gil Blas'' (french: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane ) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of G ...

,L. Vauxcelles, 1913
Les Arts, Aimé Morot
Gil Blas No. 13323 the 16 August 1913 edition of L'Illustration and the 24 August edition of L'Immeuble & la Construction dans l'Est. Aimé Morot's brother was a well-known designer and locksmith in Nancy, who worked on the restoration of the 18th century gilded wrought-iron gates on

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in Nancy, designed by Jean Lamour. His brother may have been the inspiration for his painting of The Blacksmith
''Le Forgeron''
. His nephew Jacques Morot also became a painter and exhibited three paintings (portrait of an Arab ''Chleuch au chapelet'', ''Despedida (l'adieu)'' and ''Château du Metz'') in the Salon in 1922.C. Morro, 1922
Beaux Arts, Artistes vus aux récents Salons
La Revue moderne des arts et de la vie. C-E. Curinier (Dir.). 22e année, no. 7., p.23.

Military genre, battle scenes

Morot had been attached to the General Staff of the French Army, which had given him ample opportunity to study cavalry men and horses.E. Cameron (1901). Evolution of a Picture: A Chapter on Studies. Brush and Pencil 8(3):121-133.
/ref> To study the movement of the horses he used his eye as a cameraE.M. Stuart (1917). The Luxembourg Loan Exhibition. Fine Arts Journal 35(3):163-196.
/ref> by the use of a simple device that he could open and close rapidly in front of his eyes to better isolate the movements. This allowed him to vividly paint several historic cavalry charges from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Among the paintings exhibited at the

Salon des Artistes Français The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

were ''Cavalry charge at Rezonville'' (1886),T. Child (1887). The Paris Salon of 1887. The Art Amateur 17(1):4
/ref>Montezuma (1887). My Note Book. The Art Amateur 17(5):92-93
/ref> ''3^ème Cuirassiers a Helsass Hausen'' (1887) and ''Reischoffen'' (1887, exhibited in

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) and ''Prisonnier!'' or the ''Charge of cavalry at Gravelotte'' (1888).T. Child (1889). The Paris Salon of 1889. The Art Amateur 20(6):126
/ref>

Society portraits

Aime morot son altesse royale la duchesse d alencon

After producing a number of classical and figure paintings at the beginning of his career (''e.g.'' ''Hériodiade'' (1880), ''Le Bon Samaritain'' (1880), ''Jésus de Nazareth'' (1883), ''Temptation of St. Anthony'', ''Dryade'' (1884)) he went on to become a society portraitist. Among others he painted ''Madame Bertinot'' (1880), ''Madame Agache'' (1881), ''Comtesse de Fontarce'' (1885), ''Son Altesse Royale la Duchesse d'Alençon''

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, ''Madame Archdeacon-Boisseaux'' (1895), ''Madame Méring'' (1895), ''Baron

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'' (1898), the most famous French socialite of the

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Countess

Élisabeth Greffulhe Countess Marie Anatole Louise Élisabeth Greffulhe (''née'' de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay; 11 July 1860 – 21 August 1952) was a French socialite, known as a renowned beauty and queen of the ''salons'' of the ''Faubourg Saint-Germain'' in Paris ...

,Laure Hillerin, 2014
La Comtesse Greffulhe, l'Ombre des Guermantes
Flammarion, Paris - France. 576 p. the painter '' Édouard Detaille'' (1899), ''Monsieur

Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (born Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; ; ; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway ...

'' (1905),American Art News 3(70):1-8
/ref> the ''Duc de Doudeauville'', ''Madame Aymé Darblay'' (1902), ''Pastor Goulden'' (1906),American Art News 4(20):1-8
/ref> and ''Frère et Soeur'' (Brother and sister), which was exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1911.

Paintings of animals

Morot excelled in portraying animals, which appeared in many of his other paintings, such as the horses in his historic cavalry paintings, a donkey in ''Le bon Samaritain'', a pig in ''Temptation of Saint Anthony'', a snake in ''La Charmeuse'', lions in ''Lion before his Prey'' and ''Reclining Lions'', ''Rex'' and ''Au Tableau'', tigers in ''Tigre'' and ''Deux Tigres Combattant'', dogs in ''Mademoiselle Brice'' and ''Jacques Goldschmid'' and a cat in the painting of his daughter ''Denise with Cat'' (1899).

International travel

Aime Morot, 1902, Retour de chase au lion

His visits to Spain inspired him to Spanish motifs, such as the paintings of ''Toro Colante'' displayed at the Salon de Paris in 1885T. Child (1885). The Paris Salon. The Art Amateur 13(2):23-24, 32
/ref> and of which gravures were published in

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in 1887 and ''El Bravo Toro!''. which was exhibited in the Salon in 1884 and later featured on the cover of Les Annales politiques et littéraires after his death in 1913.T. Child (1884). The Paris Salon. In The Decorator and Furnisher 4(3):87-89.
/ref> These paintings were painted from memory after Morot had visited a series of bull fights in Spain.E. V. (1884). The Paris Salon. Triumph of the Realistic Evolution - The Great Pictures of the Year - Works by American Exhibitors. The Art Amateur 11(2):34-38, 27.
/ref> Aimé Morot loved hunting and travelled extensively. In 1889 he travelled to Morocco in the company of the French novelist and naval officer Pierre Loti, where he made several orientalist drawings. In 1893 he went to India for tiger hunting. He also visited Turkey, Syria and Abyssinia (Ethiopia), where he was refused permission to hunt elephants and lions. In 1900 he visited Niger and French Sudan, where he did hunt and kill a large lion. This resulted in ''Au Tableau'' (1902), representing the return from the hunt with a killed lion being carried up on a river bank by Africans, which is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy. Although he travelled widely, he produced few works in the

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genre. ''Arabs attacking an English outpost'' was part of the collection of Salvador de Mendonça until 1892.Notes and Novelties (1892). The Collector 3(12):186-190
/ref> Morot's ''Dessert Warrior'' and the watercolour ''Fantasia'' was inspired by his travels to Morocco.

Media

Aimé Nicolas Morot, 1878 - Portrait of Victoria made at Villa Medicis, Rome, Italy

Most of Morot's work consists of oil paintings, although he used other media. Aimé Morot was a member of the Société d'aquarellistes Français and submitted the watercolour ''Hallah'' to their 1888 exhibition in ParisSociété d'Aquarellistes Français, 1888
Dixième Exposition, Catalogue
Paris. Librairie Artistique H. Launette & Cie (Eds.), 212 p. and painted the Battle of Reichshoffen using watercolours. He also painted the ceiling of the Grand Salon of the Hôtel de Ville in Nancy in 1902. Aimé Morot made various sculptures in marble and bronze. In 1905 he worked on a memorial for

, which consisted of a group representing Gérôme working on his ''Gladiator'' sculpture. This sculpture was exhibited in the ''Jardin de l'Infante'' in one of the courts of the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the '' Venus de Milo''. A central ...

Art News from the Old World (1905). Brush and Pencil 15(5):124-125
/ref> and is now exhibited in the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French a ...

. At the same time he worked on a portrait of fellow painter

Ernest Hébert Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (3 November 1817 – 5 December 1908) was a French academic painter. Biography Hébert was born in Grenoble, son of a notary in Grenoble, and moved in 1835 to Paris to study law. He simultaneously took art ...

for display at the Salon de Paris and was selected as a jury member for the next Salon in 1906.American Art News (1905) 3(72):1-8
/ref> His sculptures also include a number of

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style women's heads carved in white marble similar to those sculpted by (French, 1850-1920), (French, 1880-1952), Enzo Sighieri (Born 1868), Louis Jacques Gallet (Swiss, 1873–1955), Affortunato Gory (Italian, 1895-1925) and G. Verona.

Colour palette and painting technique

For his oil paintings on canvas, Aimé Morot had a preference for a colour palette consisting of silver white,

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red ochre Ochre ( ; , ), or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. It ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown. It is also the name of the colours produced ...

cadmium yellow Cadmium pigments are a class of pigments that contain cadmium. Most of the cadmium produced worldwide has been for use in rechargeable nickel–cadmium batteries, which have been replaced by other rechargeable nickel-chemistry cell varieties ...

cadmium red Cadmium pigments are a class of pigments that contain cadmium. Most of the cadmium produced worldwide has been for use in rechargeable nickel–cadmium batteries, which have been replaced by other rechargeable nickel-chemistry cell varieties ...

, raw sienna,

burnt sienna Sienna (from it, terra di Siena, meaning "Siena earth") is an earth pigment containing iron oxide and manganese oxide. In its natural state, it is yellowish brown and is called raw sienna. When heated, it becomes a reddish brown and is calle ...

cobalt blue Cobalt blue is a blue pigment made by sintering cobalt(II) oxide with aluminum(III) oxide (alumina) at 1200 °C. Chemically, cobalt blue pigment is cobalt(II) oxide-aluminium oxide, or cobalt(II) aluminate, CoAl2O4. Cobalt blue is lighter ...

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rose madder Rose madder (also known as madder) is a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant '' Rubia tinctorum''. Madder lake contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpurin. ...

, carmine lake and ivory black.Ch. Moreau-Vauthier (1923). Comment on peint aujourd'hui
H. Floury (Ed.), Paris. 112 p. In French. His painting medium consisted of oil mixed with some

turpentine Turpentine (which is also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, terebenthene, terebinthine and (colloquially) turps) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin harvested from living trees, mainly pines. Mainly used as a special ...

or sometimes with

copal Copal is tree resin, particularly the aromatic resins from the copal tree ''Protium copal'' (Burseraceae) used by the cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica as ceremonially burned incense and for other purposes. More generally, copal includes re ...

. He would start his painting by making a rough outline of the entire subject on a well-dried oiled

canvas Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbag ...

using a

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charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, ...

, then applied the paint. When the completed painting had dried for a long time, he finally applied a light

varnish Varnish is a clear transparent hard protective coating or film. It is not a stain. It usually has a yellowish shade from the manufacturing process and materials used, but it may also be pigmented as desired, and is sold commercially in variou ...

Paintings and drawings

*''Femmes lisant et panthère dans un paysage'', 1869. Oil on canvas, 0.65 x 0.54 m.
''Jésus parmi les Docteurs''
(Jesus among the doctors), 1871. Oil on canvas, 32 x 47 cm. Students' work at academy: Sketch for the grand prize of painting.Cat'zArts register
- Beaux-arts de Paris, l'école nationale supérieure.
''Une Scène de Déluge''
1872.

Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy, France, Nancy (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy), one of the oldest museums in France, is housed in one of the pavilions on Place Stanislas, in the heart of the 18th-century urban ensemble, a World Herit ...

(in storage), France.
''Super Flumina Babylonis''
(''La captivité des Juifs à Babylone''), 1873. Oil on canvas, 1.45 x 1.13 m,

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French '' grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Scien ...

, Paris.Joconde. Portail des collections des musées de France
/ref> *''Daphnis et Chloé'', exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1873.Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivant, exposé au Palais de Champs-Élysées le 5 May 1873 (1873). Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.
Portrait
of ''J.S. Guilloire'', contrôleur en chef de la Comédie-Française, 1874. Oil on wood panel, 0.272 x 0.22 m. Carnavalet Museum, (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris).http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr France.
Portrait
of ' (1841-1925), sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, 1881. Oil on wood panel, 0.27 x 0.215 m. Carnavalet Museum, (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris). France. *
Médée
', 1876. Oil on canvas, 232 x 160 cm. exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1877. Musée Barrois, Bar-le-Duc, France. *''Mlle M. d'Epinay'', exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1877.
''Victoria''
1878. Water colour portrait on paper, 0.12 x 0.09 m. Private collection M.J. Waterloo, Amsterdam - The Netherlands. *''The Good Samaritan'', study, 1878. Oil on canvas, 0.56 x 0.38 m. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1880.F.-G. Dumas, 188
Catalogue Illustré du Salon, 1880
Motteroz and L. Baschet, Eds. 484 p.

Petit Palais The Petit Palais (; en, Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...

, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France. *''Les Ambronnes'' (

Ambrones The Ambrones ( grc, Ἄμβρωνες) were an ancient tribe mentioned by Roman authors. They are generally believed to have been a Germanic tribe from Jutland. In the late 2nd century BC, along with the fellow Cimbri and Teutons, the Ambrone ...

), 1879. Épisode de la bataille d'Eaux-Sextienne. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1879.F.-G. Dumas, 1879
Catalogue Illustré, Salon de 1879
L. Baschet and British and Foreign Artist Association, Eds. 172 p.

(in storage), France.
''Herodiade''
1880. *''Descente de croix'' (Descent from the cross), no date. Oil on canvas, 0.82 x 0.59 m, signed Aimé Morot lower left. *''Portrait of a lady'', no date.

Charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, ...

drawing on paper, 0.185 x 0.145 m. Signed in the lower left corner. *
Le Forgeron
', no date. Oil on canvas, 42.2 x 33.8 cm. Musée des beaux-arts, Reims, France. *'' The good Samaritan'', 1880. Oil on canvas, 2.69 x 1.98 m,

, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France. *''Monsieur Barthelemy Crepy'', 1880. Oil on canvas, 1.02 x 0.80 m, Musée des beaux-arts, Lille, France. *Portrait of ''Madame Agache'', 1880. Oil on canvas. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1882.F.-G. Dumas, 1882
Catalogue Illustré du Salon, 1882
Librairie d"Art L. Baschet, Ed. 459 p. *''Temptation of Saint Anthony''. Oil on Canvas. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1881.L. Enault, 1881. Paris-Salon 1881
Edition ornée de 25 gravures
Published by E. Bernard et Cie and L. Baschet, Paris, 196 p. *Portrait of ''Mademoiselle M. Agache'', 1881. Oil on canvas. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1881.F.-G. Dumas, 1881
Catalogue Illustré du Salon, 1881
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 426 p.
Portrait
of ''Madame

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'' (1854-1941), sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, 1881. 0.28 x 0.23 m. Carnavalet Museum, (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris), France. *Portrait of ''Mme W. H.''. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1882. *''The death of Mazepa's horse'', 1882.T. Chukhlib, 2004
Did Ivan Mazepa Pose For European Artists?
The Day No. 1., Kiev, Ukraine.
Portrait
of ' (1858-1934), 1883. Oil on wood panel, 0.275 x 0.224 m. Sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, Carnavalet Museum, (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris), France.
''Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth''
1883. Oil on canvas, 3.50 x 2.50 m. Exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français in 1883.F.-G. Dumas, 1883
Catalogue Illustré du Salon, 1883
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Libraire - Ed. 313 p.F.-G. Dumas, 1883. Au Salon de 1883. Paris Illustré No. 1. L. Baschet, Libraire - Editeur. 22 p.Le Monde Illustré, 1884. Le Martyre de Jesus de Nazareth. No. 1411, 12 Avril.

(in storage), France. *''Self portrait of A-N. Morot'', 1883. Drawing published in de Bélina, 1883.A.-M. de Bélina, 1883
Nos peintres dessinés par eux-mêmes: notes humoristiques et esquisses biographiques
Published by E. Bernard et Cie, Paris. 512 p.
''Dryade''
1884. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1884.F.-G. Dumas, 1884
Catalogue Illustré du Salon, 1884
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 330 p.J. de Biez, 1884
Le Salon de Paris Illustré
J. Lemonnyer (Ed.), Paris. The wreath of flowers in the frame was modelled by a sculptor who was a friend of the artist. Sold at auction in New York in 1892, from the collection of Mr. Salvador de Mendonca, Brazilian Minister at WashingtonFifth Avenue Art Galleries, 1892
Catalogue of modern oil paintings, principally of the Barbizon school, owned by Senhor Salvador de Mendonca
Wm. B. Norman, New York, 56 p.
''El Bravo, Toro''
1884. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1884.
''Toro Colante''
no date. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1885.F.-G. Dumas, 1885
Catalogue Illustré du Salon, 1885
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 349 p.Le Monde Illustré, 1887. Toro Colante. Grand supplément du Monde Illustré. No. 1565, 26 Mars. p. 202. *''Monsieur Jules Claretie'' administrateur de la Comédie-Française (1840-1913), no date - between 1880 and 1890. Oil on wood panel, 0.35 x 0.24 m, Carnavalet Museum (Musée Carnavalet, Paris), France.
Portrait
de ''Monsieur

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

'', 1885. Oil on canvas, 1.10 x 0.88 m.

Maison de Victor Hugo Maison de Victor Hugo () is a writer's house museum located where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832 and 1848.Information sheet from the Maire de Paris entitled 'Maisons de Victor Hugo'. It is one of the 14 City of Paris' Museums that ha ...

(Hauteville House), Guernesy, France.
Portrait of ''Comtesse de Fontarce''
1885.
Portrait
de ' (1831-1893), sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, 1885. Oil on wood panel, diameter 0.28 m. Carnavalet Museum, (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris), France. *
Comte de Gironde
', no date. Oil on canvas, 1.46 x 0.92 m, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France.
''Jeune Juive''
no date. Etude, oil on wood panel, 0.27 x 0.22 m. Private collection M.J. Waterloo, Amsterdam - The Netherlands. *''Rezonville'',

, Paris, France. *'' Reichshoffen, 6 August 1870'', 1887. Oil on canvas, 4.30 x 8.00 m. Exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français in 1887.F.-G. Dumas, 1887
Catalogue Illustré du Salon, 1887
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 399 p.Le Monde Illustré, 1887. Le Bataille de Reichshoffen. No. 1586, 20 Août. p. 118.

Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, u ...

, Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles), France. *''Une fantasia'', Water color, no date. Listed in the 1888 catalogue of the Société d'aquarellistes Français.
''Gitane''
Oil on wood panel, no date.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy, France, Nancy (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy), one of the oldest museums in France, is housed in one of the pavilions on Place Stanislas, in the heart of the 18th-century urban ensemble, a World Herit ...

. *
Monsieur Henri Schneider
', no date. Oil on canvas, 130 x 96 cm
Ecomusée Creusot Montceau
Montceau, France. *Portrait de ''Madame la Baronne G.C. de B.''. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1888.F.-G. Dumas, 1888
Salon de 1888. Catalogue Illustré
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 375 p. *''Madame Aline Leon'', 1887,

(in storage), France. *''Hallali'', 1888. Watercolor. Exposed at the Salon des Aquarellistes Français in Paris, 1888.E. Montrosi, 1888. Salon des Aquarellistes Français. 11e Fascicule. Librairie Artistique II. Launette et Cie (Eds.). *''Passage de l'oued M'Cazen'', 1889P. Loti. Au Maroc. Published in Desbenoît
Collection Jaquet, La gravure sur bois
Collection de gravures extraites de périodiques et de journaux illustrés du XIXe siècle. Tome 6. Les dessinateurs du Monde Illustré. *''Le passage de un Gué'', no date. *''La fantasia'', 1889. *, no date. *''Le Sultan de Maroc dans la cour des Ambassadeurs'', no date. *, no date. *''Algerian guard''. 0.20 x 0.24 m. Sold at auction in New York from the collection of Mr. J Abner Harper.Ortgies & Co., 1892
Catalogue of paintings in oil and water colors. The private collection of Mr. J. Abner Harper.
Auction catalogue, New York. 80 p. *''Arabs Attacking an English Outpost; Episode of the war in Egypt''. Oil on canvas, 0,74 x 0.92 m. Sold at auction in New York in 1892, from the collection of Mr. Salvador de Mendonca, Brazilian Minister at Washington. *
Prisonnier
', no date. Oil on canvas, 1.10 x 1.28 m, Musée des beaux-arts, Lille, France. *''Portrait of M. Paternote'', 1889. Mr. Patenotre was the minister of France in Morocco and was painted posing in a palace in Fes.Le Voleur Illustré
R. Morot (Directeur), No. 1789, 30 October 1890. Paris. p. 696 *''Rixe dans un intérieur'', no date. Oil on canvas, 0.46 x 0.55 m. Morot also made a watercolour painting of the same scene. *Portrait o
''Mademoiselle M. Gérôme''
Portrait of the wife of Mr. Morot on horseback, exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1890,F.-G. Dumas, 1890
Salon de 1890. Catalogue Illustré
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 364 p. photograph published in L'Illustration magazineL'Illustration, 3 May 1890. Le salon de 1890, No. 2642, Paris. and in Enault (1890)L. Enault, 1890
Paris-Salon 1890 par les procédés phototypiques de S. Bernard et Cie.
2e Serie, 2e Volume. *''Les danses Françaises à travers les âges'' (Plafond destiné a l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris), 1892. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1892.F.-G. Dumas, 1892
Catalogue Illustré de Peinture et Sculpture, Salon de 1892.
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 360 p. *''Le reveil de Minet'', photograph published in Gil Blas in 1894.Gil Blas, No. 47, 25 Nov 1894. *''Fleur d'automne'', 1892. Water colour on paper. *''Retraite de Saint-Jean-d'Acre'' (Prairial An VII). Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1893.F.-G. Dumas, 1893
Catalogue Illustré de Peinture et Sculpture, Salon de 1893.
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 353 p. *Portrait of ''Monsieur Eugénidi'', 1895.
Portrait of ''Madame Archdeacon-Boisseaux''
1895. *Portrait of ''Monsieur Bernard'', no date. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1895.F.-G. Dumas, 1895
Catalogue Illustré de Peinture et Sculpture, Salon de 1895.
Librairie d'Art L. Baschet, Ed. 387 p. *Portrait o
''Mademoiselle M. Gérôme''
1895. *Portrait of ''Prince A. d'Arenberg'', 1897. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1898.F.-G. Dumas, 1898
Catalogue Illustré de Peinture et Sculpture, Salon de 1898
L. Baschet, Ed., p. 382 *Portrait o
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'' 1897. *Portrait of ''Le duc de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville'', 1897. Exhibited at the Salon de Paris, 1898.Les Veb's, 1898. Carnet de l'Amateur. La Vie Parisienne, Dir. A. Baudouin. 7 May issue, p. 263 *Portrait o
''Comte de la Rochette''
1898. *Portrait of ''Madame Depret'', 1898. *''Homme Drapé'', no date. Signed pencil drawing sketch on paper for

, 0.29 x 0.22 m. *Portrait of ''Monsieur Chevalier'', 1899. *Portrait of ''Monsieur Édouard Detaille'', 1899. Oil on canvas, 1.50 x 0.90 m,

, Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles), France. *Portrait of ''Comte de Fontenay'', 1900. *Portrait de ''Monsieur Edouard Dumont'' (architect). Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1900.F.-G. Dumas, 1900
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1900
L. Baschet, Ed., Paris. 364 p. *Portrait of ''Josephine Prouvost,'' no date. Oil on canvas.
Portrait of ''Monsieur Louis Stern''
1900. Oil on canvas. *Portrait of ''Comte Creuzé de Besser'', 1900. *Portrait of ''Madame A. C...''. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1901.F.-G. Dumas, 1901
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1901
L. Baschet, Ed., Paris. 375 p. *Portrait of ''Monsieur P. D...''. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1901. *Portrait of ''Monsieur Cronier'', 1901. *Portrait of ''Madame A. D...''. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1902.F.-G. Dumas, 1902
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1902
L. Baschet, Ed., Paris. 351 p.
''Retour de la chasse au lion''
(''Au Tableau''), 1902. Oil on canvas. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1902.

, France. *Portrait of ''Monsieur Jacques Goldschmid'', 1903. *Portrait of ''Monsieur Denormandie'', 1903.
Portrait of ''Madame Aimé Morot et sa fille''
1904. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1904.F.-G. Dumas, 1904
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1904
L. Baschet, Ed., Paris. 303 p.
Portrait of ''Madame Aymé Darblay''
1904. Oil on canvas. *Portrait of ''Mademoiselle Janine Desmarais'', 1904. Oil on canvas, 0.83 x 0.60 m.
Portrait
of ''Monsieur

'', 1905. Oil on canvas, 1.41 x 0.99 m,

, Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles) France. *Portrait of ''

'', 1905. Oil on canvas, 1.24 x 0.95 m. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1905.F.-G. Dumas, 1905
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1905
Ludovic Baschet, Ed. Bibliothèque des Annales, Paris. 334 p.

, Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles), France. *''Rex''. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1907.F.-G. Dumas, 1907
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1907
Ludovic Baschet, Ed. Bibliothèque des Annales, Paris. 299 p. Published as postcard at the salon.
Portrait
of ''Monsieur Eugène Goüin''. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1909.F.-G. Dumas, 1909
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1909
Ludovic Baschet, Ed. Bibliothèque des Annales, Paris. 282 p.
''Portrait of a girl''
1909. Oil on canvas 0.40 x 0.32 m. Private collection M.J. Waterloo, Amsterdam - The Netherlands. *Portrait of ''Baron Edmond de Rothschild''. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1910.F.-G. Dumas, 1910
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1910
Bibliothèque des Annales, Paris. 282 p.
''Frère et Soeur''
1911. Displayed on the cover of the April 1911 edition of L'illustrationL'illustration, numéro consacré aux Salons de 1911. No. 3557, 29 April 1911. *
Souvenir du Maroc (Fantasia)
', no date. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1911. Published in the April 1911 edition of L'illustration. *Portrait of ''M. Limantour''. Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1912.F.-G. Dumas, 1912
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1912
Edition Baschet, Paris. 334 p.Le Salon Téléphoné. La Vie Parisienne, 11 May 1912, p. 334.
''Ephemère printemps''
(Les deux psychés). Exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1912. *Portrait o
''Monsieur Paul Deschanel''
no date. Exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1913.F.-G. Dumas, 1913
Catalogue Illustré du Salon de 1913
Edition Baschet. Bibliothèque des Annales. 332 p. This was the last painting exhibited by Aimé Morot at the Salon just before his death in August 1913.

Bronze and marble sculptures

, Paris (sculpted by

and Aimé Morot) *Head bust of Richard Wagner. White marble on stand, signed, height 42 cm. *''Woman's torso''. No date. Bronze, signed. *''Baigneuse'', no date. Bronze, signed, foundry mark C. Valsuani on base. height 45 cm. *''Head of elegant woman'', no date. Sculpted in high-relief against chiseled background in white marble, signed, height 42 cm. Private collection Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
''Head of young lady''
no date. Sculpted in high-relief against chiseled background in white marble, signed, height 12 cm. Private collection Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Buste
of ''

'', about 1909. Bronze.

Musée Georges-Garret The Musée Georges-Garret or Georges-Garret Museum is located in the city of Vesoul, in the Haute-Saône departement of eastern France. The museum was created in 1882, and since 1981 has been installed in a former 17th-century Ursuline convent, ...

Vesoul Vesoul () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France. It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'aggl ...

.
''Vénus au bain''
no date. Bronze on green marble base, signed, height 22 cm. Private collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. *''Head of young lady'', no date. Sculpted in high-relief against chiseled background in

Carrara marble Carrara marble, Luna marble to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa ...

, signed, height 20 cm. Private collection Amsterdam. *''Buste de jeune femme'' (Buste of a young lady), no date. White

on stand, signed, height 27 cm. *''Head of young lady with eyes closed'', no date. Sculpted in high-relief against chiseled background in

, signed Morot, height 19 cm. Private collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. *''Paysanne'', no date. Alabaster sculpture of young farmer girl, signed Morot. Height 35 cm. Private collection Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Art gallery

File:Aimé Morot, Scène du déluge, Nancy.jpg, ''Une Scène du déluge'', 1872. Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, France. File:Aimé_Morot_Prix_de_Rome.JPG, ''Super Flumina Babylonis'', 1873. Prix de Rome painting. File:Aimé-Nicolas Morot-Médée-Musée barrois.jpg, ''Médée'', 1876, Musée Barrois, Bar-le-Duc, France. Second class medal award at Salon. File:Aime morot les ambronnes 1879.jpg, ''Les Ambronnes'' (

), 1879. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, France. First class medal awarded at Salon. File:Aimé-Nicolas_Morot_Hérodiade_1880.jpg, ''Hérodiade'' (Herodias), 1880. File:Morot Tentation de Saint Antoine.jpeg, ''Temptation of Saint Anthony'', exhibited at the Salon de Paris, 1881. File:Aime morot dryade 1884.jpg, ''Dryade'', 1884. File:Aime morot bravo toro 1884.jpg, El bravo toro, 1884. File:Aime morot toro colante nodate.jpg, ''Toro colante'', no date. Exposed in 1885. File:Henri Schneider (1840-1898).png, ''Monsieur Henri Schneider''. File:Aime morot comtesse de fontarce 1885.jpg, ''Comtesse de Fontarce'', 1885. File:ReichshoffenMorot1870.jpg, ''3^ème Cuirassiers a Helsass Hausen'', 1887. Watercolor of the 1870 Franco-Prussian battle, Musée du château de Versailles, France. File:Aimé-Nicolas Morot - Souvenir du Maroc (Fantasia).jpg, ''Souvenir du Maroc (Fantasia)'' Exhibited in the 1911 Salon des Artistes Français. File:Gitane (Morot).jpg, ''Gitane'', no date.

. File:Aime Morot, Mademoiselle Madeleine Gérôme, 1890.jpg, Mademoiselle Madeleine Gérôme, 1890. File:Prouvost-Josephine-par-Aimee-Morot.jpg, ''Madame Josephine Prouvost''. File:Aime morot mademoiselle brice.jpg, ''Mademoiselle René Brice'', no date. Exposed at l'Épatant in 1898.WHIP, 1898. Pendant la Semaine. La Vie Parisienne, Dir. A. Baudouin. 26 February issue, p. 116. File:Aimé Morot - Nude with a Japanese Umbrella.jpg, ''Etude de femme au bain'', no date. File:Moreau-vauthier 1906 plate 32 aime morot madame archdeacon boisseaux 1895.jpg, ''Madame Archdeacon-Boisseaux'', 1895. File:Aime morot charmeuse.jpg, ''Charmeuse'', no date. File:Aimé Morot Mademoiselle Madeleine Gérôme 1895.jpg, ''Portrait of Mademoiselle M. Gérôme'', 1895. File:Aime morot monsieur eugenidi 1895.jpg, ''Monsieur Eugénidi'', 1895. File:Aime Morot Mesdemoiselles Eugénidi.jpg, ''Mesdemoiselles Eugénidi'', no date. File:Aime Morot Comte de la Rochette 1898.jpg, ''Comte de la Rochette'', 1898. File:Aimé Morot portrait Edouard Detaille 1899.jpg, Portrait of Mr. ''Edouard Detaille'' (painter), 1899. File:Aime morot 1900 louis stern 1900 gravure henry wolf 1904.jpg, ''Louis Stern'', 1900. Wood engraving by Henry Wolf, 1904. Signed by Aimé Morot and Henry Wolf. File:Morot jeune juive 1000px.jpg, ''Jeune Juive'', Etude d'Aimé Morot in original frame, no date. Oil on wood panel, size 22 x 27 cm. File:Aimé Morot Madame Aimé Morot et sa fille 1904.jpg, ''Madame Aimé Morot et sa fille'', 1901. File:Aime morot portrait of Jean-Léon Gérôme.jpg, Portrait of

, no date. File:Aime morot madame ayme darblay 1904.jpg, ''Madame Aymé Darblay'' 1902. File:AimeMorot.jpg, painter

, portrait on cover of L'Illustration, 1905. File:Aimé Morot - Portrait of Gustave Eiffel, 1905.jpg, Portrait of Gustave Eiffel, 1905. File:Portrait d'Eugène Goüin, par Aimé Morot.png, ''Portrait of Monsieur Eugène Goüin'', exhibited at the Salon de Paris, 1909. File:Aimé Nicolas Morot. Portrait of a girl, 1909. Oil on canvas 32x40cm.jpg, Portrait of a girl by Aimé Nicolas Morot, painted in 1909 and in original frame. Oil on canvas, size 32 x 40 cm. File:Aimé_Morot_-_Frère_et_Soeur.jpg, ''Frère et Soeur'', Portrait of the children of Mr. Morot. Exposed at the Salon de Paris in 1911. File:Aime morot les deux psyches.jpg, ''Ephemère printemps'' (Les deux psychés). Exposed at the Salon de Paris in 1912. File:Portrait of M. Paul Deschanel by Aimé Nicolas Morot.jpg, Portrait of Mr.

Paul Deschanel Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (; 13 February 1855, in Schaerbeek28 April 1922) was a French politician. He served as President of France from 18 February to 21 September 1920. Biography Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819–190 ...

. This was the last painting by Aimé Morot exposed at the Salon de Paris in 1913. File:Gérôme exécutant les Gladiateurs.jpg, Sculpture by

and Aimé Morot,

, Paris. File:Aimé Morot - Tête de Jean-Léon Gérôme.jpg, Tête de

, Aimé-Nicolas Morot, vers 1909, bronze
Musée Georges-Garret

, France. File:Vénus au bain, Aimé Nicolas Morot.jpg, ''Vénus au bain'', no date. Cast bronze on green marble base. File:Aime-Nicolas Morot Paysanne sculpture albâtre.jpg, ''Paysanne'', Aimé-Nicolas Morot, no date. Alabaster sculpture of young farmer girl. File:Morot no-date marble sculpture head of young lady.jpg, ''Head of young lady'', Aimé-Nicolas Morot, no date. Portrait sculpted in high-relief against a chiseled background in white marble. File:Aime-Nicolas Morot - Girl's face sculpted in relief in white Carrara marble.jpg, ''Girl's face'', Aimé-Nicolas Morot, no date. Sculpted in relief in white Carrara marble.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morot, Aime Nicolas 1850 births 1913 deaths Artists from Nancy, France 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists Prix de Rome for painting Members of the Académie des beaux-arts 19th-century French male artists