Louis Janmot

Louis Janmot (1814 - 1892) is a painter Lyons. It with a romantic and realistic style.

It is known in particular as a disciple of Ingres.

One can find today some of his works to the Musée of the Art schools of Lyon.

Its major work is the Poem of the heart , together made of 18 tables of 1835-1855. A long poem composed by Janmot itself is used as argument with the tables.

Works

The Poem of l´âme, 18 paintings and 16 drawings (museum of the fine arts of Lyon):

One Evening , (1854)
Wild flower , (1845)
Spring
the Nightmare , (1854)
the gold scale, (1851)
the paternal Roof , (1854)
the Phantom
the Good-bye
the ideal
Reality
the Corn Grain
the Bad Path (1854)
Sun rays
L´Ange and the Mother (1854)
Divine Generation (1854)
Flight Of the heart (1851)
the Passage of the hearts
To remember the Sky
On the Mountain
Virginitas
First communion

the assumption of the virgin , Museum of modern art of Saint-Etienne
Christ with the Garden of the Olive-trees , museum of the fine arts of Lyon
Henri Lacordaire (1802-1861) , museum of the fine arts of Lyon

External bonds

Site of the museum of the Art schools of Lyon

The Poem of the heart: The ideal

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