Jules-Elie Delaunay

{"Id":50,"Name":"Jules-Elie Delaunay","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EDELAUNAY, JULES-ELIE (1828-1891),\u003C/strong\u003E French painter, was born at Nantes and studied under \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=160\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EFlandrin\u003C/a\u003E and at the \u0026Eacute;cole des Beaux Arts. He worked in the classicist manner of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=31\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EIngres\u003C/a\u003E until, after winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Italy in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists. As a pure and firm draughtsman he stands second only to Ingres. After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the church of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of Apollo, Orpheus and Amphion at the Paris opera-house; and twelve paintings or the great hall of the council of state in the Palais Royal. His \u003Cu\u003EScenes from the Life of St Genevieve\u003C/u\u003E, which he designed for the Panth\u0026eacute;on, remained unfinished at his death. The Luxembourg Museum has his famous \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/image.asp?id=435\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003E\u003Cu\u003EPlague in Rome\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/a\u003E and a nude figure of Diana; and the Nantes Museum, the \u003Cu\u003ELesson on the Flute\u003C/u\u003E. In the last decade of his life he achieved great popularity as a portrait painter.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESource:\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/u\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cli type=\u0022square\u0022\u003EBiographical entry in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://46.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DE/DELAUNAY_ELIE.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003E1911 Encyclopedia Britannica\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":true,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":27}