Albert Rigolot

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'''Albert Gabriel Rigolot''' (28 November 1862, Paris - 25 April 1932, Paris) was a French landscape painter.

== Biography == He took his first art lessons in the public schools of the 16th arrondissement. Later, he studied with Léon Germain Pelouse and Auguste Allongé<ref name="Swanson">Vern G. Swanson, "Albert Rigolot" from ''Utah art, Utah artists : 150 year survey'', Layton, Gibbs Smith, 2001 {{ISBN|1-58685-111-X}}</ref> and had his début at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1886.

He then became a teacher at the Académie Julian, where his pupils included a group known as the "French Art Missionaries" (Lorus Pratt, John B. Fairbanks, Edwin Evans and John Hafen), who had been sent from Utah in 1890 by the LDS Church to improve their skills for painting murals in the Salt Lake Temple.<ref name="Swanson"/>

Rigolot was heavily influenced by the Barbizon school. After a trip to Algeria in 1896, he began to produce works in the Oriental style and became a member of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français.<ref name="R">[http://www.rehs.com/albert_gabriel_rigolot_soleil_levant_dans_la_brume.html Albert Rigolot] @ The Rehs Galleries.</ref>

In 1900, he was among those painters commissioned to provide decorations for Le Train Bleu, a famous restaurant inside the Gare de Lyon. That same year, he was awarded a Silver Medal at the Exposition Universelle.<ref name="R" /> The following year, he became a Chevalier in the Legion d'Honneur.<ref>[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_1=NOM&VALUE_1=RIGOLOT&NUMBER=1&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28RIGOLOT%29%20%3aNOM%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=9&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=100&DOM=All Documentation:] @ the Base Leonore.</ref>

His son Yves also became a painter; working under the name {{ill|Yves Rouvre|fr}}.<ref>Jean Leymarie, ''Yves Rouvre'', Paris, Cercle d'art, 1998 {{ISBN|2-7022-0517-8}}</ref>

==See also== [[File:Albert Garbriel Rigolot - The Threshing Machine.jpg|thumb|350px|The Threshing Machine (1893)]] *List of Orientalist artists *Orientalism

==References== {{reflist}}

== Further reading == * Livres Group, ''Peintre Orientaliste: Albert Maignan, Felix Vallotton, Albert Gabriel Rigolot, Charles Gleyre, Raden Saleh, William Holman Hunt, Alfred Bastien'', General Books (2010) {{ISBN|1-1598-5647-8}},

== External links == {{commons category|Albert Gabriel Rigolot|Albert Rigolot}} * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/albert-gabriel-rigolot/past-auction-results ArtNet: more works by Rigolot]

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