François Souchon

François Souchon was a French painter active during the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Born in 1787 and passing in 1857, he received his artistic training under the guidance of Jacques-Louis David. This foundational education informed his subsequent career as an instructor, where he taught notable artists such as Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Emile Dupont-Zipcy. His work remains documented within the history of French painting, representing a link between the neoclassical tradition of david and the next generation of artists. Souchon's legacy is defined by these documented pedagogical relationships and his own practice as a painter in France.