Eugène-Robert Pougheon

Eugène-Robert Pougheon, born July 18, 1886 in Paris and died March 8, 1955 in the same city, was a French painter. After studying at the Académie Julian, he entered the École nationale des beaux-arts de Paris in 1912. He studied with Jean-Paul Laurens and Paul-Albert Besnard. Pougheon won the Prix de Rome in 1914, but was drafted when the First World War broke out. He did not enter the French Academy in Rome until it reopened in 1919. Pougheon was appointed Director of the French Academy in Rome on October 1, 1942, replacing Jacques Ibert. The Villa Medici having been seized by the Italian government on June 22, 1940, the Academy was transferred to Nice, then to Fontainebleau until 1945. Pougheon was curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André from 1946 to 1955.