Oil On Canvas Signed Diodore Rahoult, Devotion To The Virgin, Genre Scene, Napoleon III

Old oil on canvas dating from the middle of the 19th century. Very beautiful genre scene depicting a day of procession. Work signed by the Grenoble artist Diodore Rahoult. Canvas presented in its original frame; Overall in good condition, gilding to be reviewed. 60cm X 53CM Charles Diodore Rahoult is a French painter, born in Grenoble on December 2, 1819, and died in the same city on March 23, 1874. Biography Coming from a family of Grenoble merchants whose father was a confectioner, Diodore Rahoult shows precocious aptitude for painting. After being a student of the Grenoble painter Horace Mollard, he left for Paris to be a student of Léon Cogniet in the company of his friend Henri Blanc-Fontaine. After a stay in Italy in Rome and Naples in 1845, he returned to Grenoble in 1847. From 1848, he exhibited at the Salon of Grenoble, then of Lyon. In 1852, he produced painted decorations in the chapel of the Virgin of the church of Saint-André in Grenoble and decorated a café on the Place Grenette1, in the same city. He exhibited La Rentrée de la Cour at the Palais de Justice at the Salon de Paris in 1868. The following year, he devoted himself with Henri Blanc-Fontaine to the municipal commission of allegorical paintings for the new museum-library of Grenoble. He was particularly concerned with the allegories of Poetry, History and Geometry in the vestibule and those of Theology, Astronomy, Mechanics, Legislation, History and Philosophy in the library. He was taken by a stroke at the age of 53 and is buried in the Saint-Roch cemetery in Grenoble. Works The great flood of Grenoble in 1733. View of rue Hector-Berlioz and the Hôtel de Lesdiguières on the right. Engraving by Diodore Rahoult in 1860. He is a genre painter and a landscaper. He was part of the group of painters who met in Proveysieux and is sometimes associated with the Dauphiné school. Several of his paintings are exhibited at the Grenoble museum. In one of his paintings produced in 1863, Le procès fait à Auguste Casimir-Perier, Diodore Rahoult represented himself as a member of the public. The work is exhibited in the factory room at the Musée de la Révolution française. He was also a lithographer and an illustrator. His major work is the illustration of tales in patois by the poet François Blanc, Grenoblo Malhérou, retracing in particular the floods in Grenoble in 1733, which have become a valuable iconographic documentation of the period. Posterity In 2013, the Musée de l'Ancien Évêché and the municipal library of Grenoble jointly organized a five-month exhibition on Diodore Rahoult.