Etienne-Jean Delécluze () (26 February 1781 – 12 July 1863) was a French painter and critic. From 1797 on, he was a pupil of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away f ...

, as he describes in his biography of David.
As one of his favorite pupils, he was invited to David's last meal in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

before going to

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

in 1816.
From 1822 on, he worked as a critic for the '' Journal des débats''. His book ''Louis David, son école et son temps'' (Paris, 1857) was quite politically controversial, and he had to rewrite it in order to restore his reputation. He was a maternal uncle of

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. H ...

and in charge of Viollet-le-Duc's education for some time.Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène
EmmanuelDictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 12 February 2015

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* * 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters 1781 births 1863 deaths Pupils of Jacques-Louis David 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub