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Piot, René
(b Paris, 17 Jan 1869; d Paris, 24 April 1934). French painter and stage designer. After briefly attending the Académie Julian, Paris, from c. 1888 to 1892, where he met the Nabis, he became the pupil of Pierre Andrieu (1821–92), Eugène Delacroix’s pupil and assistant, who passed on many of the master’s precepts. Piot took over from Andrieu the publication of the Journal d’Eugène Delacroix (Paris, 1893, 2/1932/R 1981; Eng. trans., London, 1938) in three volumes, a task in which he was assisted by Paul Flat. He also joined the studio of Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he was a contemporary of Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault and Georges-Olivier Desvallières. After exhibiting at the Salon in 1894, he travelled extensively in Italy, copying the works of Italian artists and studying fresco techniques. He adopted these techniques in his own work, for example the Martyrdom of St Sebastian (fresco on wood, c. 1913; Paris, Pompidou), which was essentially of a traditional allegorical and decorative character.
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