Philippe Parrot Explained

Philippe Parrot (born 13 May 1831 in Excideuil, died 1894) was a French painter. A street in Périgueux is named after him.

Selected works

• Elegy, oil on canvas, 148 x 106 cm, 1868, Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Bacchante, oil on canvas, 98.5 x 174.8 cm, 1892, Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Allegory, oil on canvas, 191 x 95, 1880, Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Sources

• Famous Pictures Reproduced from Renowned Paintings by the World's Greatest Artists, Chicago: Stanton and Van Vliet, 1917, p. 185
• Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879, p. 164
• Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, Ed. John Denison Champlin and Charles Callahan Perkins, 4 vols., Volume 3, New York: Scribner, 1887, p. 398
• Clara Harrison Stranahan, A History of French Painting from its Earliest to its Latest Practice: including an account of the French academy of painting, its salons, schools of instruction and regulations, New York: Scribner, 1888, p. 362