of a young girl in a blue dress] which hangs in the Museu Regional de São João del-Rei. Viénot identified himself in the Salon catalogues as a pupil of Guérin and Hersent. Paulin Guérin (1783-1855), official painter to the royal family and aristocracy in the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, was "one of the most prominent portrait painters of the Restoration" (Dictionary of Art (1996) vol 13, pp 790–791). Louis Hersent (1777-1860) was a gold medallist at the Salon of 1806, elected a member of the Institut 1822, and appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 1825. Viénot did some portraits for different Spanish families established in South America during that period. A sample of them are the portraits he did for the family González del Collado. Portraits by Viénot 1804 births 19th-century French painters French male painters Year of death missing 19th-century French male artists