French painter. He was a pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros, and from 1821 to 1831 studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1831 he won the Grand Prix de Rome. During his stay in Rome he executed four major works which he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1835. With his elegant and harmonious style he became a popular genre painter, and many of his paintings were engraved by Alexandre Jean Louis Jazet. //