Janmot, Pre-Raphaelite Scene, Late 19th Century, Oil on Canvas

Important painting representing praying character and 'Guardian Angel pointing to the sky with beautiful landscape in the background
Original lacquered and gilded wooden frame.
certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi Expert of the Court and the C.C.I.A.A. of Rome.
Jean Louis Janmot

He was a student at the Royal College of Lyon, where he met Frédéric Ozanam and other disciples of Abbot Noirot, his professor of philosophy. In 1831 he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and the following year received the highest award: the Golden Laurel.
In 1833 he went to Paris to take painting courses from Victor Orsel and Dominique Ingres.
Together with other Lyonnais friends he joined the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and in 1835 went to Rome, where he had the opportunity to meet Hippolyte Flandrin.

After his return to Lyon in 1836, Janmot wanted to draw the attention of the Salon critics to himself, producing large, religiously inspired paintings, such as "The Resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Naim" (1839) or "Christ in the Garden of Olives" (1840). After 1845 Janmot managed to strike the interest of Charles Baudelaire with his "Flowers of the Field," which gave him access to the following year's Salon, in which Théophile Gautier was impressed by his "Portrait of Lacordaire."

In December 1855 Janmot married Léonie de Saint-Paulet, who belonged to a noble family in Carpentras.
The following year he obtained a commission for a fresco (now disappeared) in the Church of St. Polycarp: The Last Supper. Other commissions followed, notably one for the decoration of the dome of St. Francis de Sales and one for the City Hall, which had just been renovated by his architect friend T. Desjardins. For these works Janmot was appointed professor at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon.

In 1861 Janmot moved to Paris, having been promised a large commission for the Church of St. Augustine.

During that time he painted numerous fresco portraits of members of his family on his property in Bagneux.

In 1870 same time the Prussian armies approached and invaded his property, looting his house.

Janmot fled to Algiers to his father-in-law and stayed overseas for a year, painting a few landscapes.

Back in Paris, he led a solitary life. In 1878 he painted a fresco in the Franciscan chapel in the Holy Land.

Later Janmot left for Toulon, where, despite a few commissions (a second "Portrait of Lacordaire" (1878), "Rosarie" (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1880), "The Martyrdom of St. Christine" (Solliès-Pont, 1882), he led an extremely withdrawn existence. He finished the second part of his "Poem of the Soul," which patron Felix Thiollier had said he was ready to publish.

Janmot remarried in 1885 to a former student of his, Antoinette Currat, and returned to settle in Lyon.


A work of more than 500 pages, entitled An Artist's Opinion on Art, was published in Lyon and Paris in 1887. It included articles written by Janmot in previous years.
Louis Janmot died five years later in Lyon.

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