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Henry-Pierre Picou

Henry-Pierre Picou (1824 - 1895) was active/lived in France.  Henry Pierre Picou is known for Neo-classical painting.

Henry-Pierre Picou (1824-1895) was a French Neoclassical / Neo-Grec painter known for his mythological, history, and Orientalist paintings.  He was born in Nantes, Upper Brittany, France on February 27, 1824.

Picou studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Swiss academic painter Charles (Marc-Charles) Gleyre (1806-1874).  Gleyre was a popular teacher and his students became giants in the art world, including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.  The Swiss master's precise draughtsmanship and perspective drawing was instilled within his students, including the work of Picou.  It was at the Ecole that Picou met like-minded fellow artists Jean-Léon Gérome (1824-1904), Jean-Louis Hamon (1821-1874) and Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), all of whom with Picou championed the French Neoclassic movement.  Neoclassic art looked to the grandeur and formality of Greek and Roman antiquity, the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4026 characters.]  Artist bio

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