Diodore Rahoult

He showed an early aptitude for art and studied with Horace Mollard (1800-1872), a local landscape painter.

When he had mastered the basics, he went to Paris to become a student of Léon Cogniet; accompanied by his friend, Henri Blanc-Fontaine, who he had convinced to abandon a legal career, in favor of painting.

He also decorated a café on the Place Grenette [fr],[1] He returned to Paris in 1868, to exhibit his "La Rentrée de la Cour au Palais de Justice" (The Return of the Court to the Palace of Justice) at the Salon there.

Shortly after, he and his friend, Blanc-Fontaine, were commissioned to create allegorical paintings at the new Musée-bibliothèque de Grenoble [fr]: those on Poetry, History and Geometry in the vestibule, and those on Theology, Astronomy, Mechanics, Legislation and Philosophy in the main library.

He occasionally worked as a lithographer and illustrated the dialect poems of François Blanc [fr].