12 Facts About Paul Jamot

Paul Jamot was a French painter, art critic and museum curator.

An Ecole normale superieure alumni, Paul Jamot was a member of the French School at Athens.

Paul Jamot explored Argos and the valley of the Spercheios.

Paul Jamot led the excavations in the valley of the Muses in Thespies between 1888 and 1891.

Paul Jamot collected many inscriptions including that of the so-called stele of Hesiod.

Paul Jamot published a travelogue: En Grece avec Charalambos Eugenidis.

Paul Jamot became curator of national museums, a member of the Institute of France, commandeur of the Legion of Honour, honorary curator of the Louvre, Reims museum director from 1927 to 1939.

Paul Jamot bequeathed to the city a rich collection of paintings, represented by Corot, Carpeaux, Courbet, Delacroix, Maurice Denis, Forain, Ingres, Picasso, Renoir, etc.

In September 1913, Jamot organized the hall of the new musee des beaux-arts de Reims and, in 1938, the artistic part of the inauguration festivities of Notre Dame and the exhibition "Treasures of Reims" at the Orangery of the Palais des Tuileries and at the fine arts museum of Reims.

Paul Jamot imposed only one condition to the City of Reims, ending his will with this sentence: Finally I leave the Reims Museum the jewelry that I had made for my wife by Rene Lalique; I request that they be placed in the room where the paintings bequeathed by me will be grouped, as close as possible and if possible, below the portrait of my wife by Ernest Lawrence.

Paul Jamot is buried in Paris, at Montparnasse Cemetery, under the monument he had erected by architect Auguste Perret and Maurice Denis, for his wife Madeleine Dauphin-Dornes in 1913.

Paul Jamot wrote several collections of poetry: Preludes, Des voix dans la nuit, Sacrifice du soir.