Abel de Pujol

Abel de Pujol, ca.1860. Photograph by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol or Abel de Pujol (30 January 1785 in Valenciennes – 29 September 1861 in Paris) was a French painter. He was a student of David and his own students included Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps and Émile Lévy. He painted the ceiling of the grand-staircase at the Louvre as well as the galerie de Diane at Fontainebleau and the ceiling of the Bourse de Paris. A member of the Institut de France, he was an officer of the légion d'honneur.

Selected works

Students Julien Hudson, (1811–1844) François Debon, (1816–1872) Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy, (1798–1869) who married him Auguste Désiré Saint-Quentin, (1833–1906) Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, (1803–1860) Alphonse Lami, (1822-1867)