page_title: Merry-Joseph Blondel
section_title: La Circassienne au Bain
hierarchical_section_title: Merry-Joseph Blondel / La Circassienne au Bain
caption_attribution_description: English: Faithful replica (date&#160;?) by John Parker, after an original 1814 oil painting by Merry-Joseph Blondel, which was lost with the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
context_page_description: Merry-Joseph Blondel was a French history painter of the Neoclassical school. He was a winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1803. 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. In 1832, he was elected to a seat at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
  Blondel was a student of the Neoclassical master Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault and from 1809, a lifelong friend of the painter Ingres.
  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 Louvre Museum, the Brongniart Palace, the Luxembourg Palace, and the churches of St.Thomas Aquinas and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.
context_section_description: (main article La Circassienne au Bain)
caption: Copy after Blondel of painting lost on the RMS Titanic in 1912
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