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ELIE DELAUNAY (1828-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELIE See also:DELAUNAY (1828-1891)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Nantes and studied under See also:Flandrin and at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts . He worked in the classicist manner of See also:Ingres until, after winning the Prix de See also:Rome, he went to See also:Italy in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists . As a pure and See also:firm draughtsman he stands second only to Ingres . After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the See also:church of St See also:Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of " See also:Apollo," " See also:Orpheus " and " See also:Amphion" at the See also:Paris See also:opera-See also:house; and twelve paintings for the See also:great See also:hall of the See also:council of See also:state in the Palais Royal . His " Scenes from the See also:Life of St See also:Genevieve," which he. designed for the See also:Pantheon, remained unfinished at his See also:death . The Luxembourg Museum has his famous " See also:Plague in Rome " and a nude figure of " See also:Diana "; and the Nantes Museum, the " See also:Lesson on the See also:Flute." In the last See also:decade of his life he achieved great popularity as a portrait painter .

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