Édouard-Théophile Blanchard (18 November 1844 – 24 October 1879, Paris) was a French

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scholarship in 1868.The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-arts, Paris, 2005, Yale University Press, His works included ''The Death of Astyanax'' (1868) at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, ''Hylas Driven By the Nymbhs'' (1874) at the Musée des beaux-arts de Caen which would be destroyed in 1944 and ''Herodias'' (1874) at the Salon des artistes français (French Artist's Hall) as well as ''The Gods and the Mortals'' which was displayed at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 2004. File:Edouard Théophile Blanchard La mort d'Astyanax.JPG, The Death of

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(1868) File:Etching by Théophile Blanchard.jpg, Idolatry of the Israelites in the desert, 1844, in the

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References

*Gaston Schefer, ''Galerie Contemporaine'' (''Contemporary Gallery''), a biographical note of Édouard Théophile Blanchard with the artist's photo, Paris, Le Lutin. 1844 births 1879 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters Prix de Rome for painting Academic art 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub