Abel de Pujol
{{Short description|French painter (1785–1861)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Abel de Pujol
| image = Alexandre Abel de Pujol.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Self-portrait, 1812
| birth_name = Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol
| birth_date = 30 January 1785
| birth_place = Valenciennes, France
| death_date = 29 September 1861 (aged 76)
| death_place = Paris, France
| field = Painting
| training =
| movement =
| works = Ceiling of the grand-staircase at the Louvre,
galerie de Diane at Fontainebleau,
ceiling of the Bourse de Paris
| awards = Officer of the légion d'honneur
| spouse = Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy (m. 1856)
}}
File:Abel de Pujol Disderi BNF Gallica.jpg]]
Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol or Abel de Pujol (30 January 1785 in Valenciennes – 29 September 1861 in Paris) was a French painter. He was a student of David and his own students included Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps and Émile Lévy. He painted the ceiling of the grand-staircase at the Louvre as well as the galerie de Diane at Fontainebleau and the ceiling of the Bourse de Paris. A member of the Institut de France, he was an officer of the légion d'honneur.
Selected works
César se rendant au sénat aux Ides de Mars.jpg|{{center|Caesar going to the Senate on the Ides of March}}
Execution-of-Mary-Queen-of-Scots.jpg|{{center|The Execution of
Mary Queen of Scots}}
(Cahors) Sisyphe roule éternellement son rocher - Alexandre-Denis Abel de Pujol - Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin.jpg|{{center|Sisyphus eternally rolls his rock}}
Students
- Julien Hudson, (1811–1844)
- François Debon, (1816–1872)
- Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy, (1798–1869) who married him
- Auguste Désiré Saint-Quentin, (1833–1906)
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, (1803–1860)
- Alphonse Lami, (1822-1867)
Bibliography
- Théodore Pelloquet Dictionnaire de poche des artistes contemporains Paris 1858
- Georges Rouget Notice sur Abel de Pujol, peintre d'histoire, membre de l'Institut typ. de E. Prignet Paris 1861 [https://books.google.com/books?id=LlkOAAAAYAAJ on Googlebooks]
External links
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- [http://scribouillart.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/atelier-d%e2%80%99abel-pujol-ou-interieur-d%e2%80%99un-atelier-de-peinture-d%e2%80%99adrienne-marie-louise-grandpierre-deverzy/ Analysis of the work 'Workshop of Abel de Pujol' by Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy]
- [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/abel_de_pujol.html Abel de Pujol] @ ArtCyclopedia
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Category:18th-century French painters
Category:19th-century French painters
Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour
Category:Artists from Valenciennes
Category:19th-century French male artists
Category:18th-century French male artists
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