Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school who lived from 25 July 1781 to 12 June 1853. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803, and after the Salon of 1824 Charles X of France made him a Knight of the Legion of Honour and offered him a professorship at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, a position he held until his death. In 1832 he was elected to a seat at the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803.
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He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803.
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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.
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La Circassienne au Bain ("The Circassian Lady in the Bath"), also known as Une Baigneuse ("A Bathing Lady"), was a large Neoclassical oil painting from 1814 by Merry-Joseph Blondel depicting a life-sized young naked Circassian woman bathing in an idealized setting from classical antiquity.
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