Ludovic Piette

Ludovic Piette-Montfoucault (11 May 1826, Niort – 14 April 1878, Paris) was a French Impressionist painter.

Then, while at the Académie Suisse, he became good friends with Camille Pissarro who, although younger than him, would have a decisive influence on Piette's work.

[1] He is said to have received a commission from Napoleon III to provide decorations for the apartments of Empress Eugénie, but there is no official record of this.

In 1864, because of poor health (possibly cancer), he and his wife settled at his family's farm, which he had inherited after his father's death,[1] near Lassay-les-Châteaux in Brittany.

At that time, he began writing regularly to Pissarro, whose correspondence is an important record of the formative years of Impressionism, a period with little other documentation.