Joseph Beaume

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Joseph Beaume (27 September 1796 – 11 September 1885) was a French historical painter from Marseille. He was a favored pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and regularly showed at the Salons from 1819 to 1878. Under Louis Philippe I, he was commissioned to paint several large battle scenes for the Palace of Versailles. His painting Henri III on His Deathbed was in the Luxembourg in 1903, and Napoleon's Departure from Elba was produced for Versailles. The latter was originally planned for the Salon of 1836 but was withdrawn after Louis-Napoleon's Strasbourg coup. In 1836 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. He died in Paris in 1885.