French painter. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts as a pupil of Paul Delaroche in 1842. He frequently exhibited genre and literary pictures as well as enamel portraits at the Salon from 1844 through 1867.
The text of the famous Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, the sixteenth-century sculptor and goldsmith, was the inspiration for this picture. Cellini recounted with pride how the King visited him at his studio in the Castle of Nesle.
Gris�e executed this painting in a style similar to the earlier “troubadour” painters, particularly Pierre R�voil. Like them he has attempted an accurate reconstruction of a sixteenth-century scene while at the same time recalling the style of sixteenth-century painting.
The painting was exhibited at the 1845 Salon in Paris.
