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Jules Elie Delaunay
Jules Elie Delaunay

Jules Elie Delaunay

French, 1828–1891
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Jules-Élie Delaunay was a French academic painter.
He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe. He worked in the classicist manner of Ingres until, after winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Italy; in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists.

After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the church of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of Apollo, Orpheus and Amphion at the Paris Opera house; and twelve paintings for the great hall of the council of state in the Palais Royal.

His Scenes from the Life of St Genevieve, which he designed for the Panthéon, remained unfinished at his death. The Musée d'Orsay has his famous Plague in Rome (shown at the Salon of 1869) and a nude figure of Diana; and the Nantes Museum, the Lesson on the Flute.

In the last decade of his life he achieved great popularity as a portrait painter. Among his subjects were his “Mother” and “Mademoiselle Toulmouche.”

He was awarded a first-class medal at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and the medal of honor in 1889. In 1878 he became an officer of the Legion of Honor, and the following year was made a member of the Institute. Jules-Élie Delaunay died in Paris in 1891.

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The Plague in Rome

The Plague in Rome (1869)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Mythology
Portrait de William Busnach

Portrait de William Busnach (1883)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Figurative
Le Droit Coutumier

Le Droit Coutumier (1881)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Mythology
Le Droit Ecrit

Le Droit Ecrit (1881)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Mythology
Philétas instruisant Daphnis et Chloé

Philétas instruisant Daphnis et Chloé (1875)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Mythology
Christ en croix

Christ en croix (1881)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Religion
Daniel

Daniel (1875)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Religion
Isaïe

Isaïe (1875)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Religion
Jérémie

Jérémie (1875)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Religion
Portrait of Monsieur Vinchon

Portrait of Monsieur Vinchon (1880)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Figurative
Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chloé (1868)

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
Mythology
Etude de jeune femme nue

Etude de jeune femme nue

Jules Elie Delaunay (French, 1828–1891)
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