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DELAUNAY, ELIE (1828-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELAUNAY, See also:ELIE (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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