Louis-Nicolas Cabat

Louis-Nicolas Cabat (6 December 1812, Paris - 13 March 1893, Paris) was a French landscape painter.

He was one of the most illustrious students of Camille Flers. A member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, Cabat was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France in 1867 and was director of the French Academy in Rome from 1879 to 1884.

In 1883 Cabat travelled in France with his friends Constant Troyon and Jules Dupré in search of landscapes.

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Cultural offices
Preceded by
Jules Eugène Lenepveu
Director of the
French Academy in Rome

1879–1884
Succeeded by
Ernest Hébert