Prosper Barbot

Prosper Barbot (21 May 1798, near Nantes - 12 October 1877, Chambellay) was a French landscape painter.

Pont de la Concorde (Paris)
Oasis on the Road to Cairo

Biography

His father worked for the Ministry of the Treasury.[1] He studied painting in Paris, with Louis Étienne Watelet and Jules Coignet.

After 1824, he spent several years in Italy, where he met and worked with Jean-Baptiste Corot, Guillaume Bodinier and Louis Léopold Robert. Following a trip to Sicily, he submitted two paintings to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, View of the Ruins of Agrigento and View of the Roman Amphitheatre in Taormina, for which he received a gold medal.[1] He returned to France in 1828 and settled in Chambellay, Maine-et-Loire, where he later became a Municipal Councilor.

He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1841, and would continue to do so on a regular basis until he became unable to paint. In 1842, he made a trip to Algeria, followed by a stay in Egypt from 1844 to 1846; bringing back numerous sketches, oils and watercolors on both occasions.[1]

In 1933, his heirs donated a large number of his works to the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, including his two gold medal winners from Sicily. They are displayed in a gallery devoted to 19th century landscape painters. The Département des Arts Graphiques at the Louvre has a large set of his drawings.[2]

References
  1. Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire et de l'ancienne province d'Anjou, Vol.1, H. Siraudeau et Cie, Angers, 1965 Online Archived 2012-12-18 at Archive.today
  2. Drawings by Barbot @ the Base Joconde

Further reading
  • Denise Delouche, Peintres de la Bretagne : découverte d'une province, Publications de l'Université de Haute Bretagne, 1977
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