Frédéric Villot
French engraver, art historian
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| Intro | French engraver, art historian | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Historian Art historian | |
| Work field | Arts Academia Social science | |
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| Birth | 31 October 1809, Liège, Arrondissement of Liège, Liège, Wallonia | |
| Death | 27 May 1875Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 65 years) |
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Marie-Joseph Frédéric Villot (31 October 1809 – 27 May 1875), a French engraver and friend of the prominent Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, was also an art historian, who served as paintings curator of the Louvre Museum from 1848 to 1861. Born at Liège, a possession of the Napoleonic Empire, he died at Paris.