Monday, January 10, 2022

Neoclassical Acolyte - Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864)

Hippolyte Flandrin
Portrait Study of Ingres
before 1833
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Musée Ingres, Montauban

Hippolyte Flandrin
Portrait of painter Ambroise Thomas
1834
oil on canvas
(painted in Rome)
Musée Ingres, Montauban

Hippolyte Flandrin
Young Shepherd
1834-35
oil on canvas
(painted in Rome)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Hippolyte Flandrin
Académie
ca. 1835
oil on canvas
(painted in Rome)
private collection

Hippolyte Flandrin
Youth by the Sea
1836
oil on canvas
(painted in Rome)
Musée du Louvre

Hippolyte Flandrin
Study of a Woman in Classical Garb
ca. 1840-50
oil on canvas
Musée Ingres, Montauban

Hippolyte Flandrin
Portrait of brothers René-Charles Dassy
and Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy

1850
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Hippolyte Flandrin
Portrait of Jeanne Elisabeth, called Isabelle Hittorf
1853
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Hippolyte Flandrin
Portrait of the Comtesse de Goyon
1853
oil on canvas
Musée Ingres, Montauban

Paul Flandrin after Hippolyte Flandrin
Portrait of sculptor Édouard Gatteaux
1862
oil on canvas
Château de Versailles

Hippolyte Flandrin
Study of Draped Apostles
ca. 1854-61
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hippolyte Flandrin
Baptism of Christ
(modello for wall painting, St-Germain-des-Près, Paris)
1858
oil on canvas
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Hippolyte Flandrin
The Crucifixion
(modello for wall painting, St-Germain-des-Près, Paris)
1860
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Hippolyte Flandrin
Melchisédech, offering Bread and Wine, blesses Abraham
(modello for wall painting, St-Germain-des-Près, Paris)
1861
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Hippolyte Flandrin
The Exile of the People
(modello for wall painting, St-Germain-des-Près, Paris)
1861
oil on canvas
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

"Flandrin studied under Ingres and in 1830 won the Prix de Rome.  He used his time in Italy to study Renaissance fresco painting, and, returning to Paris in 1838, worked principally as a painter of religious cycles in the city's churches, among them St-Germain-des-Près." 

– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)