Hippolyte Flandrin - Double Self-Portrait of Hippolyte and Paul Flandrin

Paul Jean Flandrin (28 May 1811,

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- 8 March 1902,

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) was a French painter. He was the younger brother of the painters Auguste Flandrin and

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (23 March 1809 – 21 March 1864) was a French Neoclassical painter. His most celebrated work, '' Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer'' ("Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea"), from 1836, is held in the Louvre. Bio ...

Life

Flandrin took painting classes from 1926 to 1931 at Jean-Pierre Laurens and Pierre-Henri Ducos de La Haille from École des beaux-arts de Paris, a renowned fine arts school in France. Flandrin first trained with Antoine Duclaux (a landscape painter and animal painter from Lyon) and

Jean-François Legendre-Héral Jean-François Legendre-Héral (21 January 1796, Montpellier – 13 September 1851, Marcilly) was a French classical sculptor. Biography Jean-Francois Legendre-Heral was born on 21 January 1796 in Montpellier. His father was a postal worker. ...

(a sculptor), before joining the École des beaux-arts de Lyon, then the

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. He then joined the studio of

Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

. He competed for the

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twice and was unsuccessful both times, but still managed to get to Rome at his own expense, joining his brother Hippolyte, who had already won the prize. They spent four years in Rome, during which Paul specialized in landscape painting, making studies after nature which he later worked up into history paintings for the Paris salons. He also regularly collaborated with his brother, providing the landscape backgrounds for the latter's works. As well as being one of the most notable proponents of the classical landscape tradition alongside Édouard Bertin and

Alexandre Desgoffe ''The Valley of the Nymph Egeria'' Alexandre Desgoffe (1805–1882) was a French landscape painter born in Paris. He studied under Ingres, and travelled in Italy from 1837 to 1842. He usually introduced into his landscapes historical or mythologi ...

(whose daughter Aline he married in 1852), Paul Flandrin evolved later in his career towards a more naturalistic style. He also produced portraits in oils and pencil as well as caricatures. He and Aline Desgoffe had one child, Joseph Flandrin (1857-1939), who became an architect and was the father of the painter

Marthe Flandrin Marthe Flandrin (1904–1987) was a French artist and painter, specializing in frescos, as at Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët, but also producing designs for mosaics and tapestries, such as her 1962 ceiling mosaics for Notre-Dame de la Trinité Basilic ...

(1904-1987).

Works in public collections

* ''Landscape, a proscribed man says farewell to his family'' (''Paysage, les adieux d'un proscrit à sa famille'') or ''Sabine Mountains'' (''Montagnes de la Sabine''), 1838,

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* ''Solitude'', 1857, musée du Louvre, Paris * ''Penitents for the dead in the Roman Campagna'' (''Les Pénitents de la mort dans la campagne de Rome''), 1840,

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* ''The Atlas Gorge'' (''Gorges de l'Atlas''), c.1844-1845, musée d'art et d'histoire de Langres * ''The Banks of the Rhône at Givors'', 1855, musée des beaux-arts de Lyon * ''The School at Saint-Denis, from the park'',

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* ''The Head of an African'', ca. 1830,

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Jean-Paul Flandrin - Odalisque with Slave - Walters 37887.jpg, ''

Odalisque with Slave ''Odalisque with Slave'' (French: ''L'Odalisque à l'esclave'') is an 1839 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres commissioned by Charles Marcotte. Executed in oil on canvas, it depicts a nude odalisque, a musician, and a eunuch in a harem int ...

'', 1842,

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. Flandrin-Vienne.JPG, ''Outskirts of Vienne'',

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Musée Ingres-Bourdelle - Les Bords du gardon - Paul Flandrin - Joconde06070001415.jpg, ''The banks of the Gardon'', 1850 Musée Ingres-Bourdelle,

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Exhibitions

* 1984, « Hippolyte, Auguste et Paul Flandrin »,

musée du Luxembourg The Musée du Luxembourg () is a museum at 19 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace (the matching west wing housed the Marie de' M ...

in Paris and musée des beaux-arts de Lyon. * 2007, « Hippolyte et Paul Flandrin, paysages et portraits », musée des beaux-arts de Nantes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flandrin, Paul French landscape painters French portrait painters Artists from Lyon 1811 births 1902 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists