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Janmot was a French painter and poet. He belonged to the Lyon school of painting, with idealistic and mystical tendencies similar to those of the Nazarenes and the Pre-Raphaelites. His Christian beliefs, which are very apparent in his art. In 1833, he became a student of Victor Orsel at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Although his techniques reflect his studies with Ingres, he closely allied himself with Eugène Delacroix, whose enthusiasm for the literature of Dante and Shakespeare he shared.

Janmot’s style combined the precision of Ingres with the meditative devotion of his first teacher, Orsel. His predilection for heraldic compositions were based on symmetry and repetition.

The Janmot postcards were made long after his death. Most the the cards we see do not credit Janmot as the artist but rather the museum, which was common practice in the early 1900's.

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