Aimé Nicolas MOROT (Nancy 1850-Dinard 1913)
Portrait of an Amazon
Panel, two boards, reinforced
55 x 45 cm
Signed and dated lower left Aimé Morot / 1870.
Son of an upholstery merchant, Aimé Nicolas Morot studied at the Nancy School of Drawing and Painting under Claude-Émile Thiéry and Charles Sellier, before taking up a competitive examination to become a pupil of painter Alexandre Cabanel at the Paris School of Fine Arts on May 31, 1869.
He won the Prix de Rome in 1873 with his Captivity of the Jews in Babylon. By marrying Suzanne Gérôme, he became the son-in-law of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.
He exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1880 to 1912, where he won a medal of honor in his first entry for Le Bon Samaritain.
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