François Marius Granet (17 December 1775 – 21 November 1849) was a French painter, primarily of architectural subjects. François Marius Granet was born on 17 December 1775 in Aix-en-Provence; …

Dec 13, 2025 · François Marius Granet was a French painter and watercolourist. Along with a number of other artists—Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres, Antoine-Jean Gros, Anne-Louis Girodet—he lived …

On more than 700 m2, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Braque, Dubuffet, de Staël...more than 130 works from the exceptional collection of the Jean and Suzanne Planque …

Granet conceived this subject during Napoleon's occupation of Rome, at which time the Capuchin order had been banished from its seventeenth-century church near piazza Barberini.

In 1824 Granet went back France to become a curator at the Louvre. He was later director of the Museum of French History at Versailles, a post he kept until the Revolution of 1848. He bequeathed …

François-Marius Granet is today admired principally for his fluid landscape sketches, which, in their easy evocation of the shifting effects of weather and light, seem to prefigure the work of the Impressionists.

After briefly studying in Paris with French painter Jacques-Louis David, Granet traveled in 1802 to Rome, where he spent the next twenty-two years. There, he became fascinated by ancient ruins and …

In 1796 went to Paris upon the acquaintance of the Comte de Forbin, who was one of the pupils of Jacques-Louis David, and entered the studio. In Rome from 1809. Later returned to Paris, and …

French painter and museum official. Granet was a pupil of J.-L. David and subsequently spent the years 1802–19 in Rome (he returned to Italy several times thereafter).

Apr 17, 2025 · The son of a master mason, Granet learned drawing by copying his father's print collection before enrolling as a student at the free drawing academy in his hometown of Aix-en …