Augustin-Henri Delattre

Augustin-Henri Delattre , often just called Henri Delattre , also written Henri de Lattre , (* September 30, 1800 (corresponds to 8th Vendémiaire X) in Saint-Omer , Pas-de-Calais department, France ; † June 11, 1876 in Paris in the 12th arrondissement ) was a French animal painter and portrait artist .

Life

Augustin-Henri Delattre was the son of Louis Henri Delattre and Eugénie Lemaire. His brother Adolphe Delattre was also an artist and ornithologist . In 1824 he exhibited the painting Interior d'écurie for the first time in the Salon de Paris . Delattres pictorial themes concentrated on landscapes with animals, rustic furnishings and especially animal portraits. Mostly they were horses, but also other animals such as dogs, bulls and rams. During the reign of Louis-Philippe I , he was a popular artist in France . In 1835 he painted in Normandy and Switzerland . After the February Revolution of 1848 he went into exile in the United States . On March 7, 1849, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote a letter to Francis Lieber , in which he praised Delattre as a very talented artist and honorable character and asked Lieber for support in his work. Delattre lived in Philadelphia between 1849 and 1855 . A stay in Canada followed in 1850 . To escape the heat of the summer in the USA, he went to the Great Île in the Saint Lawrence River , a quarantine station for Irish immigrants near Québec , to paint. He exhibited his works from 1824 to 1848 and from 1863 to 1875 at the Salon de Paris. In 1838 he had an exhibition at the British Institution in London and from 1849 to 1865 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts . Further trips took him to the Finger Lakes and the Genesee Valley . His pictures show that he was also in Boston , Portsmouth and Maine. Additional exhibitions of works by Delattre took place at the National Academy of Design in New York City and at the Maryland Historical Society . During his time in Quebec, he won several artistic competitions with gold medals and other cash prizes. His most important American work showed the general and politician Zachary Taylor at a horse race.

Entry of his birth 8th Vendémiaire X Saint-Omer

Entry of his death in the 12th arrondissement of Paris

Dedication names

Henry De Lattre's Cazique painted by Henry Constantine Richter

Adolphe Delattre, together with Lesson, dedicated both the French common name Oiseaux-Mouche Henry and the scientific taxon Ornismya Henrica to his brother in 1839 . So they wrote: Dédié à Henry De Lattre, voyageur et frère de M. De Lattre. Later it turned out that this species was described as the red-throated nymph ( Lampornis amethystinus ) as early as 1827 by William Swainson . Nonetheless, John Gould also uses the common name Henry De Lattre's Cazique ( Delattria henrici ) for the same hummingbird. Robert Ridgway uses the common name Henri Delattre's Humming Bird in his book The humming birds .

photos

• Bay Horse in a Stable 1855
• Bonnets o Blue
• Boston 1849
• Jerry's Spotted Arabian 1854
• Philo 1856
• Portsmouth with Dog
• Ripton 1839
• Two Chestnuts in a Landscape 1855
• Spaniel Head Study
• The Race between Mac and Zachary Taylor at Hunting Park Course , 1849
• Spotted Arabian 1852
• Head of a bull (after Paulus Potter)
• The Percheron stud "Diligence" in a stall & Percheron mare "Joan of Arc" with foal "Diligence II" in a stable; pair
• Two horses in the paddock , 1849
• Portrait of a Gent with dog
• "Flying Dutchman" ridden by Hiram Woodruff

literature

• Aurelian Craiutu, Jeremy Jennings: Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings , Cambridge University Press; 2009, p. 99, ISBN 978-0-521-85955-4
• David Karel: Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, engravers, photographes, et orfèvres. , Pu Laval Presse Univers., 1992, 1992, p. 222, ISBN 978-2-7637-7235-6

source

1. ↑ La Lettre de la Miniature (French; PDF; 329 kB)
2. ↑ AskArt Biography for Henri De Lattre (Eng.)
3. ^ Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne Oiseaux-Mouche nouveaux ou très-rare, découverts par M. De Lattre dans son voayage en Amérique et décrits par MM. De Lattre et Lesson (French)
4. ↑ The Auk Note on Delattria henrici by Herbert Brown (English; PDF; 212 kB)
5. ↑ A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds Henry De Lattre's Cazique ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) 
6. ^ Smithsonian Institute: The humming birds p. 324 The humming birds (engl.)
7. ↑ Image: Bay Horse in a Stable  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
8. ↑ Image: Bonnets o Blue  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
9. ↑ Image: Boston  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
10. ↑ Jerrys Spotted Arabian  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
11. ↑ Image: Philo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
12. ↑ Portsmouth with Dog  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
13. ↑ Image: Ripton  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
14. ↑ Image: Two Chestnuts in a Landscape  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)  
15. ↑ Image: Spaniel Head Study ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) 
16. ↑ The Race between Mac and Zachary Taylor at Hunting Park Course ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) 
17. ↑ Spotted Arabian ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) 
18. ↑ Head of a bull (after Paulus Potter) (Engl.)
19. ^ The Percheron stud "Diligence" in a stall & Percheron mare "Joan of Arc" with foal "Diligence II" in a stable; pair (Engl.)
20. ↑ Two horses in the paddock  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ Portrait of a Gent with dog (Engl.)
22. ↑ Flying Dutchman ridden by Hiram Woodruff (Eng.)