See also:CHARLES See also:PAUL See also:LANDON (1760-1826)
, See also:French painter and See also:art-author, was See also:born at Nonant in 176o
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He entered the studio of See also:Regnault, and won the first See also:prize of the See also:Academy in 1792
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After his return from See also:Italy, disturbed by the Revolution, he seems to have abandoned See also:painting for letters, but he began to exhibit in 1795, and continued to do so at various intervals up to 1814
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His " See also:Leda " obtained an See also:award of merit in 18o,, and is now in the Louvre
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His " See also:Mother's See also:Lesson," " See also:Paul and See also:Virginia Bathing," and " See also:Daedalus and Icarus " have been engraved; but his See also:works on painting and painters, which reach nearly one See also:hundred volumes, See also:form his See also:chief See also:title to be remembered
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In spite of a See also:complete want of See also:critical accuracy, an extreme carelessness in the See also:biographical details, and the feebleness of the See also:line engravings by which they are illustrated, See also:Landon's Annales du Musee, in 33 vols., form a vast repertory of compositions by masters of every See also:age and school of permanent value
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Landon also published Lives of Celebrated Painters, in 22 vols.; An See also:Historical Description of See also:Paris, 2 vols.; a Description of See also:London, with 42 plates; and descriptions of the Luxembourg, of the See also:Giustiniani collection, and of the See also:gallery of the duchesse de See also:Berry
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He died at Paris in 1826
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