Hippolyte Flandrin

(1809–1864) fransk målare

Hippolyte Flandrin (France, 1809–1864) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Hippolyte Flandrin belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Hippolyte Flandrin was born in Lyon and died in Rome. Hippolyte Flandrin trained at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon and French Academy in Rome. The teachers included Louis Hersent and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Hippolyte Flandrin worked in Rome and Rome. Wikidata associates Hippolyte Flandrin with Neoclassicism. Hippolyte Flandrin became a member of Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Prix de Rome, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order. The students included Edgar Degas, James Tissot, Pierre Grivolas, and Charles Lepec.

The best-known works include ‘Napoléon-Joseph-Charles-Paul Bonaparte, prince Napoléon’, ‘Jeune Fille’, and ‘Madame Hippolyte Flandrin’. The works belong mainly to the genres history painting and portrait. The catalogue has 28 works by Hippolyte Flandrin with free images. The dated works span the years 1834–1861. Works by Hippolyte Flandrin are held by several collections, among them Département des peintures du Louvre, Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, Boyer collection, and Musée de l'Histoire de France. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval, Antoine Étex, William Henry Bartlett, Jan Ksawery Kaniewski, and Ernst Deger.

• Romanticism
• Study (Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea)