Stanislas-Henri-Benoit Darondeau (4 April 1807 – 12 July 1842) was a French painter, draftsman and engineer who was born in Paris in 1807. The musician
Henry Darondeau was his father and
Benoît Darondeau one of his brothers.
He exhibited in the
Salon de Paris
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
between 1827 and 1841. His painting reflects the
Orientalist movement of great interest in the Near East. He circumnavigated the globe between February 1836 and November 1837 under
Auguste Nicolas Vaillant (1793–1858), producing many illustrations of French Polynesia and Hawaii.
[Severson, Don R., ''Finding Paradise, Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp xiii] In 1841-42, he participated in an African expedition under
Captain Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez aboard the ''Nisus''. Darondeau died in
Brest, France
Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French m ...
in 1841.
The
Honolulu Museum of Art
The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single co ...
and
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15t ...
are among the public collections holding works by Stanislas-Henri-Benoit Darondeau.
References
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1807 births
1842 deaths
19th-century French painters
Painters from Paris
French draughtsmen
French illustrators
French male painters
19th-century French male artists