Aimé Morot (1850–1913)

Aimé Nicolas Morot, was a French painter and sculptor, in the Academic Art style. In the 1880s, Morot worked at the Académie Julian, where he was a colleague of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) with whom he co-supervised the British cartoonist and illustrator Sir Leonard Raven-Hill (1867-1935) in 1885 and 1886.

After Gustave Moreau’s death in 1898, he led Moreau’s studio at the Institute. Theodor Pallady (1871-1956) and Gaston H. Boucart (1878-1962), former pupils of Gustave Moreau, continued their studies under Aimé Morot. 

As an Academician who frequently exposed at the French Artists’ Salon in Paris and being a member of the painting jury, Aimé Morot was an influential person in the modern art centre of Paris. Morot’s last contribution to the French Artists’ Salon de Paris was a painting of his two children Frere et Soeur in 1911.