Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (1758, Carpentras - 1846, Montmorency) was one of the finest of the neoclassical landscape painters. He won a gold medal at the Salon of 1812, he became the first landscape painter elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1823, and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1825. At the height of his career he held both the patronage of Napléon I and, at the Restoration, Louis XVIII. When styles in art changed, he was unable to adapt, and he fell from fashion, dying in poverty.
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