He was born into a family of merchants, and his father was a confectioner. He showed an early aptitude for art and studied with Horace Mollard (1800-1872), a local landscape painter. When he had mastered the basics, he went to Paris to become a student of Léon Cogniet; accompanied by his friend, Henri Blanc-Fontaine, who he had convinced to abandon a legal career, in favor of painting. After visiting Rome and Naples, he returned to Grenoble in 1847.
The following year, he exhibited at the Salon there, as well as the one in Lyon. In 1852, he was commissioned to create decorative works in the Chapel of the Virgin at the Collegiate Church of Saint-André. He also decorated a café on the Place Grenette [fr],[1] He returned to Paris in 1868, to exhibit his "La Rentrée de la Cour au Palais de Justice" (The Return of the Court to the Palace of Justice) at the Salon there.
Shortly after, he and his friend, Blanc-Fontaine, were commissioned to create allegorical paintings at the new Musée-bibliothèque de Grenoble [fr]: those on Poetry, History and Geometry in the vestibule, and those on Theology, Astronomy, Mechanics, Legislation and Philosophy in the main library. At that time, he became associated with a group of artists who met at Proveysieux. He occasionally worked as a lithographer and illustrated the dialect poems of François Blanc [fr].
He died of a stroke at the age of fifty-three, and was interred at Saint Roch Cemetery.
^"La double résurrection de Diodore Rahoult" by Philippe Gonnet @ Le Dauphiné
Further readingedit
Nathalie Servonnat-Favier, Peintre(s) à Proveysieux (exhibition catalogue), Musée de l'Ancien Évêché, Grenoble, 2003, ISBN2-905375-56-6
Maurice Wantellet, Deux Siècles et Plus de Peinture Dauphinoise, self-published, 1987 ISBN2-9502223-0-7
Various authors, Diodore Rahoult. Paroles de palette (exhibition catalogue), Conseil général de l'Isère/Musée de l'ancien évêché/Bibliothèques municipales, ISBN978-2-35567-078-7
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