About Frédéric Villot
Lived 1809 – 1875 (aged 65). Frédéric Villot was a French art historian, printmaker, curator, painter and copper engraver.
Marie-Joseph Frédéric Villot (31 October 1809 – 27 May 1875) was a French printmaker and friend of the prominent Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, was also an art historian, who served as paintings curator of the Louvre Museum from 1848 to 1861. Born at Liège, a possession of the Napoleonic Empire, he died at Paris.
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Who was Frédéric Villot?
French printmaker and art historian (1809–1875)
When was Frédéric Villot born?
Frédéric Villot was born on 31 October 1809 in Liège.
When did Frédéric Villot die?
Frédéric Villot died on 27 May 1875 in Paris.
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Frédéric Villot was an art historian, printmaker, curator, painter and copper engraver.
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Frédéric Villot was French.
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