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Merry-Joseph Blondel (25 July 1781 – 12 June 1853) was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school. He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803. After the salon of 1824, he was bestowed with the rank of ''Knight'' in the order of the ''Legion d'Honneur'' by Charles X of France and offered a professorship at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts: a position in which he remained until his death in 1853. In 1832, he was elected to a seat at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris,〔M. Raoul Rochette, permanent secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, ''Discours prononcé aux funérailles de M. Blondel'', 13 June 1853. (Record of speech in the public domain).〕 Blondel was a student of the Neoclassical master Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault and from 1809, a lifelong friend of the painter Ingres.〔Guillaume, Germaine ''Merry-Joseph Blondel et son ami Ingres'', Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire et de l'art Francais, 1936.〕 For much of Blondel's painting career, he was occupied with public commissions for paintings and frescoes in important buildings, including palaces, museums and churches. Blondel completed major commissions for the Palace of Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre Museum, the Brongniart Palace (also known as the Paris ''Bourse''), the Luxembourg Palace, and the churches of St.Thomas Aquinas and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. Blondel's 1814 painting ''La Circassienne au Bain'' became infamous during the early part of the 20th century for being the subject of the largest claim for financial compensation made against the White Star line, for a single item of luggage lost by a passenger on the RMS Titanic.〔New York Times, Thursday 16 January 1913, ''Titanic Survivors Claim $6,000,000'', p.28〕 ==Early life== Merry-Joseph was born on 25 July 1781 to Joseph-Armand Blondel (1740-1805), a painter and expert in stucco decoration, and his second wife Marie Marchand (died 1819). Merry-Joseph had two brothers and a sister, including Charles-Francois Armand Blondel, an architect. Several generations of the Blondel family had become associated with architecture and the design and decoration of buildings. Blondel's great uncle, Jacques-Francois Blondel (1705-1774) wrote a treatise on the subject and opened the first dedicated school of architecture in Paris.〔Blondel, J.F. ''Cours d'architecture ou Traité de la Décoration, Distribution et Construction des Batiments'', 4th ed, Paris, 1773.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Merry-Joseph Blondel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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