Jules Felix Ragot - Artist

Jules Felix Ragot (1835-1912) was a French painter born in Paris and who died in Brussels. He was a student of Jean Murat (1807-1863) and Francois Edouard Picot (1786-1868). He began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1867. A portrait and genre painter with a preference for still lifes he was part of a traditionalist realist movement with post impressionist influence. Ragot was very famous in Belgium during his life-time since she was tutor of Queen Marie-Henriette. King Leopold ll of Belgium acquired several of his works. One of the greatest art critics of that time, Joris-Karl-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) spoke of him in glowing terms. He was active in Saint-Gilles and his oeuvre is among the cultural common good of Belgium.