Émile Signol

Although he lived during the Romantic period, he espoused an austere neoclassicism and was hostile to Romanticism.

[2] He painted a portrait of Hector Berlioz at the Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, during the composer's stay upon his winning the Grand Prix de Rome in 1830.

Signol had won the grand prize for the same competition's painting category with Titulus Crucis.

[2] Elected in 1860, he held a first seat position at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Signol and Gleyre taught Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ in 1861.

Émile Signol, Dagobert I, king of Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy , oil on canvas, 1842, 90 × 72 cm. Musée National des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon