Jean Raymond Hippolyte Lazerges (1817–1887) was a French Orientalist painter and songwriter.
Biography
Despite showing some artistic talent his father, who was a baker, refused to let him study drawing. From 1830, he and his family lived in Algeria. In 1838, he went to Paris to begin his mandatory military service.
Upon being discharged, he remained in Paris, where he studied with the sculptor David d'Angers and the painter
François Bouchot
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. He began with religious works, to obtain government commissions for church murals, as his student years had left him in poverty. A notable painting from this period is the "
Death of the Virgin
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", in the chapel at the Palais des Tuileries.
He returned to Algeria in 1861, due to health problems, and began working in the Orientalist genre; creating mostly portraits. Together with Joseph Sintès and Alfred Chataud, he helped to establish the Algerian style of Orientalist painting, characterized by realistic representations of people and places.
Periodically, he returned to France to work on murals. In 1863, he began to create nine episodes from the life of Mary, for the chapel of the , which were completed in 1868. Following the Exposition Universelle of 1867, he was named a Knight in the
Legion of Honor
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. From 1865 to 1869, he provided decorations for the Église Saint-Laurent, also in
Orléans
Orléans (;"Orleans" (US) and Armand Point, , and his own son Paul, who also became an Orientalist painter. His works may be seen at the , the Musée du Quai Branly, and the
Musée d'Orsay
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.
In addition to painting, he composed numerous vocal melodies, several of which, such as ''Vive Paris'' and ''Retour en France'', have become popular. He also set some poems to music, notably ''Vous n'Étes Rien Près d'Elle'' by . His ''Éloge du Tabac'' has been recorded by Paul Van Nevel's Huelgas Ensemble.
Selected works
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Napoléon III
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'' Visiting the Flood Victims in Lyon (1856)
(Narbonne) Portrait d'un arabe - Hippolyte Lazerges - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne.jpg, ''Portrait of an Arab'' (c.1880)
(Narbonne) Rêverie c.1883 - Hippolyte Lazerges - Musée des Beaux Arts de Narbonne.jpg, ''Rêverie'' (1883)
(Narbonne) A la fenêtre - Hippolyte Lazerges - Musée des Beaux Arts de Narbonne.jpg, ''At the Window'' (1883)
Café d'Alger, Lazerges.jpg, ''Moorish Café in Algiers'' (1878)
(Narbonne ) Algériennes autour de la fontaine - 1886 - Hippolyte Lazerges - Musée des Beaux Arts de Narbonne.jpg, ''Algerian Women Around the Fountain'' (c.1886)
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Marie Dorval
Marie Dorval (6 January 1798, Lorient, Morbihan – 20 May 1849) was a French actress in the Romantic style.
Early life and first marriage
Marie Thomase Amélie Delauney was born on 6 January 1798 to Marie Bourdais, who was sixteen yea ...
in the Role of
Agnes of Merania
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Biography
Agnes Maria was the daughter of Berthold, Duke of Merania, who was Count of Andechs, a castle ...
'' (c.1846)
References
Further reading
* Marion Vidal-Bué, ''L’Algérie des peintres: 1830-1960'', Paris-Méditerranée, 2002,