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Paul Delaroche BiographyFrench Academic painter, sculptor and
history painter Also known as: Paul Hippolyte Delaroche, Hippolyte Paul Delaroche |
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DELAROCHE, HIPPOLYTE, commonly known as PAUL
(1797—1856), French painter, was born in
Paris on the 17th of July 1797. His father
was an expert who had made a fortune, to
some extent, by negotiating and cataloguing,
buying and selling.
Nothing can be more incorrect than this last as a reading of English history, yet we forget the inaccuracy in admiration of the treatment which represents Lady Jane, with bandaged sight, feeling for the block, her maids covering their faces, and none with their eyes visible among the many figures. On the other hand, Strafford led to Execution, when Laud stretches his lawn-covered arms out of the small high window of his cell to give him a blessing as Paul Delaroche passes along the corridor, is perfect; and the splendid scene of Richelieu in his gorgeous barge, preceding the boat containing Cinq-Mars and De Thou carried to execution by their guards, is perhaps the most dramatic semi-historical painting ever done. |
This Paul Delaroche painting was exhibited in his meridian time, 1835; and in the same year the artist exhibited the Head of an Angel, a study from Horace Vernet’s young daughter Louise, his love for whom was the absorbing passion of his life, and from the shock of whose death, in 1845, it is said Paul Delaroche never quite recovered. By far his finest productions after her death are of the most serious character, a sequence of small elaborate Paul Delaroche paintings of incidents in the Passion. Two of these, the Virgin and the other Manes, with the apostles Peter and John, within a nearly dark apartment, hearing the crowd as it passes haling Christ to Calvary, and St John conducting the Virgin home again after all is over, are beyond all praise as exhibiting the divine story from a simply human point of view. They are pure and elevated, and also dramatic and painful. | |||||||
In 1837 Hippolyte Delaroche received the commission for the great painting, 27 metres long, in the hemicycle of the lecture theatre of the École des Beaux Art. This represents the great artists of the modern ages assembled in groups on either hand of a central elevation of white marble steps, on the topmost of which are three thrones filled by the architects and sculptors of the Parthenon. |
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This great and
successful Paul Delaroche painting is on the wall itself, an
inner wall however, and is executed in oil.
It was finished in 1841, and considerably
injured by a fire which occurred in 1855,
which injury Paul Delaroche immediately set himself to
remedy (finished by Robert-Fleury); but Hippolyte
Delaroche died before he had well begun, on the 4th of
November 1856. Personally Delaroche exercised even a greater influence than by Paul Delaroche paintings. Though short and not powerfully made, Paul Delaroche impressed every one as rather tall than otherwise; his physiognomy was accentuated and firm, and his fine forehead gave him the air of a minister of state. |
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