Édouard-Théophile Blanchard


Édouard-Théophile Blanchard was a French painter. He was a student of François-Édouard Picot and Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux Arts.
Blanchard won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1868.
His topics were landscapes with nudes similar to his teacher Cabanel.
His works included The Death of Astyanax at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, Hylas Driven By the Nymbhs at the Musée des beaux-arts de Caen which would be destroyed in 1944 and Herodias at the Salon des artistes français as well as The Gods and the Mortals which was displayed at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 2004.