Joseph Beaume

French painter (1796–1885)

Joseph Beaume

Died	Paris
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting

Joseph Beaume (27 September 1796 in Marseilles – 11 September 1885 in Paris) was a French historical painter.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography

Baume was a favourite pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and a frequent contributor to the Salon between 1819 and 1878. In the time of King Louis Philippe he was commissioned to paint several large battle-pieces for Versailles. His "Henri III. on his Death-bed" was in the Luxembourg in 1903.^[3]

In 1836 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.^[4] He died in Paris in September 1885.^[2]^[3]

Notes

^ Joseph Beaume on artnet.
^ ^a ^b Leslie 1885, p. 87 col. 3.
^ ^a ^b ^c Williamson 1903, p. 102.
^ Ministère de la culture.

References

"Joseph Beaume Auction Results", Joseph Beaume on artnet, retrieved 18 March 2017
Leslie, Frank (26 September 1885), "Deaths of the Week", Frank Leslie's Illustrated News Paper, vol. 59–61, p. 87 "Joseph Beaume, a distinguished French painter aged 87 years"
"Base Léonore", Ministère de la culture (in French), retrieved 20 April 2017

Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Williamson, George C., ed. (1903), "Beaume, Joseph", Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–C), vol. I (New, revised and enlarged ed.), London: George Bell & Sons, p. 102