Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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French artist
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About Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne
- Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne (1797 - 1860) was a French painter and lithographer.
- Many of his lithographs today are in major collections in London and New York City.He obtained his first instruction in painting from Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, and from 1814 to 1819, followed the courses of the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
- He first exhibited both as a painter and lithographer in 1824.
- His best known work, ' The Extreme Unction,' painted in 1824, was reported to be in the collection of M.
- Dussommerard in the mid-1860s.
- Amongst his other original works may be cited, 'The Obsequies of the Kings of the ancient Egyptians,' and 'Gaspar Netscher and his Daughter, which are in the gallery at Dresden.
- His lithographs after eminent painters, old and modern, are too numerous to mention.
- He obtained a second-class medal in 1840.
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