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Henri-Pierre Picou
Andromeda Chained to a Rock
Oil on canvas
62.5 X 50.7 cm (24.61 X 19.96 in)
1881
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Henri-Pierre Picou
The flower pickers
1881(1881)
Oil on canvas
62.5 X 50.7 cm (24.61 X 19.96 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Allegory of Spring
1871(1871)
Oil on canvas
80 X 60 cm (31.50 X 23.62 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
At The Fountain
1880(1880)
Oil on canvas
61 X 81.3 cm (24.02 X 32.01 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Blowing Bubbles
Oil on canvas
1883
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Clipping Cupid Wings
Oil on canvas
76.9 X 62.3 cm (30.28 X 24.53 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Innocence Seduced by Love
1886(1886)
Oil on canvas
25.5 X 32 in (64.77 X 81.28 cm)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Jeu d'Echecs Indien
1876(1876)
Oil on canvas
191.1 X 281.9 cm (75.24 X 110.98 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Young women bathing.
Young women bathing.
1879
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Henri-Pierre Picou
The dressing room
centurys
Oil on canvas
92.3 X 73.7 cm (36.34 X 29.02 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
La Bonne aventure
1872(1872)
Oil on canvas
60 X 81 cm (23.62 X 31.89 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
La Muse s amuse
1881(1881)
Oil on canvas
99.5 X 81.2 cm (39.17 X 31.97 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
La Peche miraculeuse
1850s
Oil on canvas
122 X 163 cm (48.03 X 64.17 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
The birth of Pindar
1848(1848)
Oil on canvas
113 X 147 cm (44.49 X 57.87 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Sea nymphs
1871(1871)
Oil on canvas
61 X 81.2 cm (24.02 X 31.97 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Loss of Innocence
1885(1885)
Oil on canvas
32 X 24 in (81.28 X 60.96 cm)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Portrait of Cephise Picou, sister of the artist
1846(1846)
Oil on canvas
100 X 80 cm (39.37 X 31.50 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Portrait of Mrs. Henri-Jean Pierre Picou, mother of the artist
1846(1846)
Oil on canvas
100 X 80 cm (39.37 X 31.50 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
Ronde De Mai
1873(1873)
Oil on canvas
74.9 X 100.3 cm (29.49 X 39.49 in)
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Henri-Pierre Picou
The birth of Pindar
1848(1848)
Oil on canvas
113 X 147 cm (44.49 X 57.87 in)
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(27 February 1824 - 17 July 1895) was a French painter born in Nantes.His oeuvre began with portraits and classical historical subject matter but he later moved on to allegorical and mythological themes.He was an academic painter and one of the founders of the Neo-Grec school, along with his close friends Gustave Boulanger, Jean-L??on G??rôme, and Jean-Louis Hamon, also academic painters. All of them studied in the workshops of both Paul Delaroche and later Charles Gleyre. Picou's style was noticeably influenced by Gleyre. While the rest of the group generally painted classical and mythological subjects, Picou also received commissions for large religious frescoes from many churches, including the Église Saint-Roch.
His artistic debut was at the Salon in 1847. The next year he was awarded a second-class medal for his painting, Cl??opâtre et Antoine sur le Cydnus. Also known as Cleopatra on the Cydnus, it is commonly regarded as Picou's masterpiece. This showing at the Salon in 1848 was written about by the critic Th??ophile Gautier, who felt that the subject matter was too ambitious, but also said that "As it is, it gives the best hope for the future of the young artist, and ranks among the seven or eight most important paintings of the Salon.In 1875 the painting was exhibited in New York, and afterward found lodgment on the walls of a private art gallery in San Francisco.Picou maintained a large workshop in Paris on the Boulevard de Magenta, which provided him room to work on his expansive frescoes. His popularity continued to rise and he went on to win the Second Prix de Rome in 1853 for his painting, J??sus chassant les vendeurs du Temple (The Moneylenders Chased from the Temple), and another second-class medal for his Salon painting in 1857. From his debut in 1847, he was a regular at the Salon, showing almost every year until his final exhibit in 1893.He has been called the most fashionable painter towards the close of the Second French Empire
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