Louis-Nicolas Cabat
Louis -Nicolas Cabat (December 6, 1812 in Paris, † March 13, 1893 ) was a French painter who was particularly devoted himself to landscape painting.
Life
Cabat created in particular by John Constable influenced landscapes, which were influenced initially by simple, natural motifs, and later by conventional classicism -prone landscapes. In addition, coined numerous stays in Italy, such as the Lake Nemi his work which made him one of the founders of the new French school of landscape painting.
Cabat, who is considered one of the early representatives of the Barbizon school, was one of the teachers of Eugène Fromentin.
Between 1879 and 1884 he was also director of the Académie de France à Rome, which since 1803 at the Villa Medici in Rome housed Italian branch of the Académie des Beaux -Arts.
Among his landscape paintings, among others, Le Jardin Beaujon ( 1833), Chaumiere Normande animée and Étude de ciel au couchant