page_title: Philippe-Auguste Jeanron
section_title: July Monarchy
hierarchical_section_title: Philippe-Auguste Jeanron / July Monarchy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Paysans limousins au Palais des beaux-arts de Lille.
context_page_description: Philippe-Auguste Jeanron was a French painter, curator and writer. Throughout his life he was a passionate republican. His genre pictures typically depicted common people. He opposed the July Monarchy. After the February Revolution of 1848 was made head of National Museums and Director of the Louvre, where he introduced important innovations in the preservation, classification and arrangement of the collections. Later he became director of the museum in Marseilles.
context_section_description: Jeanron was a supporter of the July Revolution of 1830 that brought King Louis Philippe to power.
  He defended the freedom of expression of artists and founded the Société libre de peinture et de sculpture.
  Jeanron was a strong believer in republican principles. Throughout the July Monarchy (1830-1848) he exhibited realist pictures that illustrated his views in the Salons, and also spoke, published and discussed his ideas with many artists. A highly educated person, with deep knowledge of art history, he was open to a broad range of styles. He hoped that society would be reformed to be equally inclusive. 
  As it became clear that the July Monarchy was indifferent to the needs of the mass of people, Jeanron became one of the opposition leaders.
  He depicted the failings of the new regime through his paintings of everyday life.
  In 1830 Jeanron married Désirée-Angéline, from a well-to-do Parisian family. 
  From this marriage he inherited the estate and manor of Comborn, Corrèze, in the former Province of Limousin.
  He often painted the landscapes and country people in this area.
  Jeanron lived in exile in Limousin between 1833 and 1837.
  In 1834 he exhibited Paysans limousins écoutant un joueur de musette au bord du grand étang d’Aigueperse (Limousin peasants listening to a bagpipe player at the edge of the large pond of Aigueperse.)
  He exhibited that year at the Society of Friends of Arts of Lille, where his work was acquired for the Museum. 
  In 1840 he exhibited Bords de la petite Briance, which he hoped to sell to the Louvre, but without success.
caption: Paysages limousins (1834)
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