Tony Robert-Fleury

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Tony Robert-Fleury

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French Academic Classical painter

Born 1837 - Died 1912

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Le Dernier Jour de Corinthe

The Last Day of Corinth

1870

Oil on canvas

Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

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Pinel, médecin en chef de la Salpêtrière, délivrant les aliénés de leurs chaînes

Pinel, chief physician of Salpêtrière, delivering the insane of their chains

Oil on canvas

Portrait of a Woman

1868

Oil on panel

46.5 x 30 cms | 18 1/4 x 11 3/4 ins

Private collection, ,

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Portrait of a Seated Woman

Oil on canvas

93 x 67 cms | 36 1/2 x 26 1/4 ins

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Portrait of a Child

1868

Oil on panel

35 x 26.5 cms | 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 ins

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TONY ROBERT-FLEURY (1837—1912), French painter, was born in Paris, and studied under his father and under Delaroche and Léon Cogniet. His first picture at the Salon, in 1866, was a large historical composition of the Warsaw Massacres on April 8, 1861. In the following year his Old Women in the Place Navone, Rome was bought for the Luxembourg Museum, as was also the Last Day of Corinth in 1870. In 1880 he painted a ceiling for the Luxembourg, representing The Glorification of French Sculpture. Tony Robert-Fleury became president of the Societe des Artistes Francais in succession to Bouguereau. He acquired a great reputation for his historical compositions and portraits; and from his atelier [were] issued a great number of the best-known painters of [his time].

Source: Entry on the artist in the 1911 Edition Encyclopedia.

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