Théodore Basset de Jolimont

François Gabriel Théodore Basset de Jolimont (8 February 1787 – 1854) was a French artist, lithographer, painter and antiquary.

[1] de Jolimont was born at Martainville, not far from Rouen, on 8 February 1787, son of an advocate at the Norman parliament.

When his father died the family fortune was swallowed up by legal fees, and he had to live by his work as an artist.

de Joliment acquired considerable talent in painting with gouache and watercolor, and used this skill in reproducing and restoring ancient illustrated manuscripts.

King Louis-Philippe awarded him a gold medal for his 1845 book on the main buildings in Rouen of the year 1525.

Tower of the old church, today called Vieux Saint-Sauveur, at the start of the 19th century. 1818
Henri IV exhumé/ Dédié au Roi by Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois from a painting by Théodore Basset de Jolimont