Aimé Nicolas Morot

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Aimé Nicolas Morot (1850–1913) was a French painter in the Academic Art style.

"...Aimé Nicolas Morot was born in Nancy on 16 June 1850,[2] where at age 12 he started his studies in drawing, painting and gravure printing at l'Ecole Municipal de Dessin et de Peinture de Nancy under Mr. Thiéry[1] and the director of the school Mr. Charles François Sellier (French). He continued his study in Nancy until the late 1860s and subsequently attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but could not study in the noisy environment of Cabanel's atelier and left after having received two corrections by Cabanel. In the next two years he continued his studies independently studying in the Jardin des Plantes, where he developed his skills in observing and portraying animals. Despite his lack of attendance at the École, he won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1873 with his first submission, the Babylonian Captivity (Super Flumina Babylonis), which is currently in the collection of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and can be viewed upon request..."

"...He returned to Paris in 1880, where he met painter Jean-Léon Gérôme and married Suzanne Mélanie Gérôme (1867-1941), one of the painter's four daughters, in 1887.[7] His daughter Denise Morot was born in the late 1890s. Suzanne Morot modelled for paintings in 1897 and, together with her daughter, in 1904.[1] The family lived in a townhouse at Rue Weber 11 in Paris,[1] of which the garden resembled a zoo housing snakes, lions, panthers, leopards and other exotic animals...."

"...In 1900 he won a grand prix of the l'Exposition Universelle (Paris Exhibition) and in the same year became professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris...."

"...In 1910 Morot ordered construction of Maison dite Ker Arlette (French) in Dinard, a coastal village in North-east Brittany, and lived there until his death on 12 August 1913...."

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