Timeline |
1796 |
Born 16 July in Paris |
1815 |
Apprenticed to a cloth merchant |
1822 |
Decides a painting career, enters the studio of Michallon |
1822 |
Moves to the studio of Jean-Victor Bertin |
1825 |
Spends three years in Italy |
1827 |
Sends two paintings back to the Salon |
1844 |
Friends with Théodore Rousseau |
1845 |
Commissioned by the city of Paris to paint an altarpiece for a Parisian church |
1848 |
Elected to the Salon Jury in this year and again in 1849 |
1850 |
Establishes a friendship with Millet |
1854 |
Visits Auvers with Daubigny, also travels in Holland and Belgium |
1855 |
Wins a first-class medal at the Exposition Universelle |
1862 |
Meets Courbet while working at Saintonge |
1875 |
Dies 22 February in Paris |