Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran

French artist and teacher

Date of Birth: 14-May-1802

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1897

Profession: teacher, painter, drawer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran (May 14, 1802 – August 7, 1897) was a French artist and teacher. He was born in Paris.
Boisbaudran was admitted in 1819 to the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Peyron and Guillon Lethière.
He exhibited at the Salon in 1831 and 1840, and became a professor at the academy. As a drawing instructor he became known for his innovative method which emphasized memorization.
His students were instructed to visit the Louvre, where they were to carefully study a painting in order to reproduce it from memory later, in the studio.
This exercise was intended to help the student to discover his own visual language.Among Lecoq de Boisbaudran's best-known students were Rodin, Fantin-Latour, and Alphonse Legros.
Others who studied with him include Jules Chéret, Léon Lhermitte, Jean-Charles Cazin, Jules Dalou and Oscar Roty. Lecoq de Boisbaudran died in Paris on August 7, 1897.