Aimé Morot

Aimé Nicolas Morot
Aimé Morot, 1905, gravure of drawing by Émile Friant
Born	Aimé Nicolas Morot 16 June 1850 Nancy, France
Died	12 August 1913 Dinard, France
Resting place	Le Cimetière Montmartre 18eme division (Montmartre Cemetery), Paris
Nationality	France
Education	Thiéry, , Alexandre Cabanel
Known for	Drawing, painting, sculpturing
Notable work	Les Ambronnes, 1879; Le bon Samaritain, 1880; Rezonville, 1886; Reischoffen, 1870, 1889; Mademoiselle Madeleine Gérôme, 1890; Monsieur Edouard Detaille, 1899; Monsieur Gustave Eiffel, 1905; Ernest Hébert, 1905
Awards	Grand Prix de Rome, 1873; first medal Salon de Paris, 1879; Medal of Honour Salon de Paris, 1880 Grand Prix of l'Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900

Aimé Nicolas Morot (1850–1913) was a French painter and sculptor in the Academic Art style.

Aimé Nicolas Morot was born in Nancy on 16 June 1850, where at age 12 he started his studies in drawing, painting and gravure printing at l'Ecole Municipal de Dessin et de Peinture de Nancy under Mr. Thiéry and the director of the school Charles Sellier. He continued his study in Nancy until the late 1860s and subsequently attended the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but could not study in the noisy environment of Cabanel's atelier and left after having received two corrections by Cabanel. In the next two years he continued his studies independently studying in the Jardin des Plantes, where he developed his skills in observing and portraying animals. Despite his lack of attendance at the École, he won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1873 with his first submission, the Babylonian Captivity (Super Flumina Babylonis), which is currently in the collection of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and can be viewed upon request.

The fellowship allowed him to travel to Italy and become a resident of the Villa Medici, where the French Academy in Rome was housed. Morot rarely set foot in his atelier in the Villa Medici, but produced paintings in a regular fashion anyway. His first submission to the Salon de Paris awarded him a third-class medal for the painting Spring (Printemps) in 1876. In 1877 He was awarded a second-class medal for Médée, a first-class medal in 1879 for Les Ambronnes and the Medal of Honour for The Good Samaritan in 1880, competing against Joan of Arc by the realist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also studied under Cabanel. In Rome, he worked with a model named Victoria, who posed for his 1877 painting of Médée.