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Louis Janmot
Louis Janmot

Louis Janmot

French, 1814 – 1892
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Anne-François-Louis Janmot was a French painter and poet.

Janmot was born in Lyon, France, of Catholic parents who were deeply religious. He was extremely moved by the death of his brother in 1823 and his sisters in 1829. He became a student at the Royal College of Lyon where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy professor, Abbe Noirot. In 1831 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and a year later, he won the highest honor, the Golden Laurel. In 1833, he came to Paris to take painting lessons from Victor Orsel and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. With other Lyon painters, he entered the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. In 1835, he went to Rome with Claudius Lavergne, Jean-Baptiste Frenet and other students and met Hippolyte Flandrin.

After his return to Lyon in 1836, Janmot would attract the attention of critics of the Salon de Paris in conducting large-scale paintings with religious inspiration such as The Resurrection of the son of the widow of Nain (1839) or Christ in Gethsemane (1840). After 1845, he attracted the interest of Charles Baudelaire with his painting Flower of the Fields that allowed him to access to the Salon of 1846. Theophile Gautier was impressed by his Portrait of Lacordaire (1846). But the failure of his Poem of the Soul at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 disappointed him. In December of that year he married Leonie Saint-Paulet, from a noble family in Carpentras.

In 1856, Janmot obtained a commission to paint a fresco (since destroyed) representing the Last Supper for the church of St. Polycarp. Other orders followed, including the decoration of the dome of the Church of St. Francis de Sales and for the town hall that had been renovated by his friend the architect T. Desjardins. He was then appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Surprisingly, Janmot moved to Paris in 1861 after having been promised a commission for the Church of St. Augustine, but this project was abandoned three years later. In experiencing significant family and financial problems, Janmot accepted a professorship at the Dominican School of Arcueil. At that time, in his home in Bagneux, he made many portraits of the members of his family (only photographs are currently available).

After the birth of her seventh child in August 1870, his wife died in Bagneux. While the Prussian troops approached and occupied his home, he fled to Algiers with his stepfather and made landscape paintings. He returned in June of the following year in Paris and led a solitary life. His house in Bagneux had been looted. In 1878, he produced a fresco in the chapel of the Franciscans in the Holy Land, but this work was not followed by any further order.

Faced with family and increasing financial problems, Janmot came to Toulon, and despite some orders (new Portrait of Lacordaire (1878, Museum of Versailles), Rosaire (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1880), Martyrdom of St. Christine (Solliès-Pont, 1882), he lived a retired life. He finished the second part of the Poem of the Soul that the patron and former industrial Félix Thiollier was willing to publish.

In 1885, Janmot married a former student, Antoinette Currat, and returned to Lyon. He made charcoal drawings on the theme of the underworld, which can be regarded as a kind of continuation of the Poem of the Soul, including Purgatory (1885) and The End of Time (1888). In 1887 was published in Lyon and Paris an over 500-page book entitled Opinion of an artist on art and includes articles previously written by Janmot. He died five years later at the age of 78.

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Study for the portrait of Victor de Laprade

Study for the portrait of Victor de Laprade (1860)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study for the harmony of ‘L’Assomption de la Vierge’

Study for the harmony of ‘L’Assomption de la Vierge’ (1843)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study for the ceiling of Lyon town hall

Study for the ceiling of Lyon town hall (1858)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study for ‘Première Communion’

Study for ‘Première Communion’

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of the Virgin’s dress’ drape for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of the Virgin’s dress’ drape for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Vue du massif du Mont-Blanc depuis le sommet du Prarion, Chamonix

Vue du massif du Mont-Blanc depuis le sommet du Prarion, Chamonix

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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View of the Mont Blanc massif from Chamonix

View of the Mont Blanc massif from Chamonix

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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The sea of ice at Montenvers, Chamonix

The sea of ice at Montenvers, Chamonix (1844)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Virgin for the ‘Banner of Hyères’

Study of Virgin for the ‘Banner of Hyères’ (1843)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of Virgin for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of montains

Study of montains

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of the Virgin

Study of the Virgin (1857)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of the Archangel Gabriel

Study of the Archangel Gabriel (1858)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of saints

Study of saints

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Saint

Study of Saint (1841)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Saint Dominic’s sleeves’ drapes for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of Saint Dominic’s sleeves’ drapes for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Saint Dominic for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of Saint Dominic for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of Saint Dominic for ‘Le Rosaire’

Study of Saint Dominic for ‘Le Rosaire’ (1880)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study of moutains in Chamonix

Study of moutains in Chamonix

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Portrait of a woman with a bun

Portrait of a woman with a bun (1860)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Study for ‘La Mise au tombeau’

Study for ‘La Mise au tombeau’ (1834)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Studies of women for ‘Le Poème de l’âme’

Studies of women for ‘Le Poème de l’âme’ (1856)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Studies of women for ‘Le Poème de l’âme’

Studies of women for ‘Le Poème de l’âme’ (1851)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Presumed study for ‘L’Assomption de la Vierge’

Presumed study for ‘L’Assomption de la Vierge’ (1843)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Portrait of Gabrielle de Leguin

Portrait of Gabrielle de Leguin (1862)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Portrait of Cécile, daughter of the artist

Portrait of Cécile, daughter of the artist (1863)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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Portrait of Cécile, daughter of the artist, at 3 years old

Portrait of Cécile, daughter of the artist, at 3 years old (1860)

Louis Janmot (French, 1814 – 1892)
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