Michel Dumas (painter)

Born in Lyon, he was a student of Claude Bonnefond and Jean-Michel Grobon at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a school where he would be a teacher himself, many years later.

[1] In 1834, he moved to Paris, where he worked in the studios of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

After Ingres moved to Rome, he became an assistant to Victor Orsel and Alphonse Périn at the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette.

[2] He then joined Ingres in Italy, spending sixteen years in Rome before returning to Paris, where he specialized in religious art.

His best known students include Tony Tollet [fr] and François Guiguet.