Étienne-Jean Delécluze
Étienne-Jean Delécluze (born February 26, 1781 in Paris , † July 12, 1863 in Versailles ) was a French painter and writer .
Delécluze took lessons from the painter Antoine-Jean Gros and received a gold medal for his painting Andromache at an exhibition in 1808 . However, he gave up painting in 1816 and became an art critic for the magazine Lycée français, later in the Moniteur, and then in the Journal des Débats .
Works
- Précis d'un traité de peinture (1827)
- Mademoiselle Justine de Liron et le Mécanicien roi, nouvelles (1832)
- Grégoire VII, Saint-François d'Assise et Saint-Thomas d'Acquino (1844, 2 vols.)
- Florence et ses vicissitudes (1837, 2 vol.)
- Léopold Robert (1838)
- Dona Olimpia (1842, 2 vol.)
- Louis David, son école et son temps (1855)
- Souvenirs de soixante années (1862)
Among his novels and short stories is Justine de Liron (1832) a small literary masterpiece. The souvenirs de soixante années convey u. a. Insights into the literary discussions and circles of the 20s and 30s (see P. Mérimée and Stendhal); they are supplemented by a partial publication of the posthumous diaries Journal de Delécluze 1824–1828 (texts publié avec une Introduction et des Notes by Robert Baschet, 2nd edition 1948).
literature
- Robert Baschet: E.- J. Delécluze, témoin de son temps. 1781-1863 . Boivin, Paris 1942
Web links
- Literature by and about Étienne-Jean Delécluze in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delécluze, Étienne-Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delecluze, Etienne Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1781 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1863 |
| Place of death | Versailles |