Jules-Claude Ziegler by Nadar

Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856) was a French painter, ceramicist and photographer of the French school.

Ziegler was born in 1804 in Langres, Haute-Marne.[1] He was appointed knight of the Légion d'Honneur in 1825.[2] He was the pupil of Dominique Ingres and began to participate exhibitions at the Salon in 1832.[3]

The half-dome above the altar in the Église de la Madeleine is frescoed by Jules-Claude Ziegler.

La République (1848), musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Works

Half-dome in the Église de la Madeleine
Tomb of Jules-Claude Ziegler, in the cemetery of Soyers

References

  1. Gautier, Théophile (1985). Correspondance générale (in French). Vol. 1. p. 455.
  2. Villot, Frédéric (1852). Notice des peintures, sculptures, gravures et lithographies de l'école moderne de France, exposées dans les galeries du musée impérial [-national] du Luxembourg (in French). p. 40.
  3. Delacroix, Eugène (2008). Journal de Eugène Delacroix (in French). Vol. 2. p. 38.
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