Merry-Joseph Blondel

Merry-Joseph Blondel
Merry-Joseph Blondel, CC BY-SA 4.0

(1781–1853) French painter (1781-1853)

Merry-Joseph Blondel (France, 1781–1853) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Merry-Joseph Blondel belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Merry-Joseph Blondel was born in Paris and died in former 10th arrondissement of Paris. Merry-Joseph Blondel trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. The teachers included Charles Etienne Leguay and Jean-Baptiste Regnault. Wikidata associates Merry-Joseph Blondel with Neoclassicism. Merry-Joseph Blondel became a member of Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

The best-known works include ‘La Mort de Louis XII surnommé le Père du peuple’ and ‘The Death of Hyacinthus’. The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 26 works by Merry-Joseph Blondel with free images. The dated works span the years 1807–1850. Works by Merry-Joseph Blondel are held by several collections, among them Musée de l'Histoire de France, Boyer collection, Musée de Picardie, and Museum Baron Martin. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, Louis Étienne Watelet, George Dawe, Bartolomeo Pinelli, and Joseph Paelinck.