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factory, where young apprentices received figure drawing lessons from the celebrated
Charles-Etienne Leguay for five out of every ten working days. By 1801, however, demand for Dihl and Guerhard porcelain had increased so much that the drawing department was eliminated and apprentices were expected
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In 1824, the year of his knighthood, Blondel was awarded a professorship at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, a position which he occupied until his death in 1853. In that same year, Blondel also competed for a vacant seat at the Académie des beaux-arts but lost out to Ingres. He was
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On arrival at the Villa Medici in Rome in 1809, Blondel struck up a friendship with fellow student Jean
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decoration, and his second wife Marie-Geneviève
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Blondel as a history painter of great renown and he was accordingly rewarded with many public commissions for paintings and frescoes in important buildings, including museums, palaces and churches. Most notable among these
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Blondel's entry for the salon exhibition in
November 1814 was a full-sized figure painting, in oil on canvas, depicting a standing female figure, bathing in an idealised setting from classical antiquity. In typically simplistic fashion, the exhibition catalogue described the painting as
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Blondel appeared to be the favourite to succeed him in 1840. Together with his second wife, Louise Emilie Delafontaine, Blondel stayed at the Villa Medici as a guest of Ingres for four months in 1839, during which time the three of them undertook a lengthy sketching tour of
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In 1801, once again, Blondel convinced his father to break his apprenticeship contract as his drawing talent secured him a place in the studio of Baron Jean-Baptiste
Regnault. Within a year, Blondel had acquired the nickname
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to focus on decorative techniques more suited to the demands of mass-production, directly on the factory floor.
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the Palace of Versailles - a series of full sized portraits depicting all the known kings and queens of France.
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