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French painter (–)

Merry-Joseph Blondel (French pronunciation:[mɛʁiʒozɛfblɔ̃dɛl]; 25 July – 12 June ) was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school. He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in After the Salon of , 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 In , he was elected to a seat at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.^[1]

Blondel was a student of the Neoclassical master Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault and from , a lifelong friend of the painter Ingres.^[2]

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