GRANET, FRANCOIS MARIUS French painter, was born at Aix in Provence, on Dec. 17, his father was a builder. The boy's strong desires led his parents to place him in a school of art directed by Constantin, a landscape painter. In 1793 Granet followed the volunteers of Aix to the siege of Toulon, at the close of which he obtained employment as a decorator in the arsenal. Whilst at Aix he made the acquaint ance of the young Comte de Forbin, and upon his invitation Granet, in the year 1797, went to Paris. De Forbin was one of the pupils of David, and Granet entered the same studio. Later he got possession of a cell in the convent of Capuchins, which, hav ing served for a manufactory of assignats during the Revolution, was afterwards inhabited almost exclusively by artists. In the changing lights and shadows of the corridors of the Capuchins, Granet found the materials for the one subject to the painting of which he devoted his life. In 1802 he left for Rome, where he remained until 1819, when he returned to Paris, bringing with him besides various other works one of 14 repetitions of his celebrated Choeur des Capucins, executed in 1811. "Stella paint ing a Madonna on his Prison Wall," 181 o (Leuchtenberg collec tion) ; "Sodoma a l'hopital," 1815 (Louvre) ; "Basilique basse de St. Francois d'Assise," 1823 (Louvre) ; "Rachat de prisonniers," 1831 (Louvre) ; "Mort de Poussin," 1834 (Villa Demidoff, Flor ence), are among his principal works. In 1819 Louis Philippe decorated Granet, and afterwards named him Chevalier de l'Or dre St. Michel, and Conservateur des tableaux de Versailles (1826). He became member of the institute in 183o. After 1848 he retired to Aix and died on Nov. 21, 1849. He bequeathed to his native town the greater part of his fortune and his collections, now exhibited in the local Musee, together with a fine portrait of the donor painted by Ingres in 181 i.