Auguste Migette

A leader of the Metz School style of painting, he was a painter, stage designer, and art teacher.

Migette was first employed by the Army as a supply hand, then in 1818 enrolled in art school in Metz.

In 1825 he was graduated with distinction and moved to Paris to continue his training, first under Eugène Cicéri, then with Louis Hersent.

[1] Migette is, with Charles-Laurent Maréchal, one of the major protagonists of the artistic movement which Charles Baudelaire described as the Metz School.

On his death he bequeathed his works to the city of Metz, to be cataloged by his friend Nicolas Adolphe Bellevoye.