Pierre Grivolas

In 1843, he won first prize in the Biennial Design Contest at the Fondation Calvet, which came with a cash award that enabled him to continue his studies in Paris.

[1] There, he was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he met and was influenced by Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix and Hippolyte Flandrin.

In 1877 the Soucieta Felibrenco dé Paris was founded by Baptiste Bonnet, Jean Barnabé Amy, Joseph Banquier, Antoine Duc (Duc-Quercy), Maurice-Louis Faure [fr], Louis Gleize and Pierre Grivolas.

[2] From 1878 until his death, Grivolas was the Director of the École des Beaux-Arts d'Avignon;[1] steering his students away from Academicism by taking them on plein aire excursions to Les Angles and along the Rhône.

The following year, they moved to Monieux, a small village at the entrance to the Gorges de la Nesque [fr].