Louis Lamothe
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Louis Lamothe(1822–1869) was a Frenchacademic artistborn inLyon.He is remembered today primarily as the teacher of several more renowned artists, notablyEdgar Degas,Elie Delaunay,Henry Lerolle,Henri Regnault,andJames Tissot.[1]
Lamothe was a pupil ofJean Auguste Dominique IngresandJean-Hippolyte Flandrin.Art historian Jean Sutherland Boggs describes him as ahistory painter"in a pious Christian tradition", and likens his "correct, moral, bourgeois, and even sanctimonious portraits" to those ofFlandrin,whom Lamothe assisted in the decoration of the church ofSt-Martin-d'Ainayin 1855.[2]
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[edit]- Baumann, Felix; Karabelnik, Marianne, et al. 1994.Degas Portraits.London: Merrell Holberton.ISBN1-85894-014-1
- Thomson, Richard. 1988.Degas, the nudes.New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson.ISBN0-500-23509-0
- Getty Union List of Artist Names