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Jules-Elie DELAUNAY (1828 - 1891) - "The girl with the flowering bush", oil on canvas

Jules-Elie DELAUNAY (1828 - 1891)
"The girl with the flowering bush"
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "J.Delaunay".
Probably a study based on Antique art representing a young woman and one of his first steps as a portraitist he developed in the late 1860s, receiving many orders.
Possibly 1857-1861 (Italian period). One of the most famous artists of his time. Skilled technician, outstanding draftsman, sensitive colorist, Delaunay gradually takes over all areas: portraits, landscapes, history painting.
21.5 x 12 cm

Jules-Elie Delaunay : (1828-1891) was a French academic painter. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe. He worked in the classicist manner of Ingres until, after winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Italy; in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists. After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the church of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of Apollo, Orpheus and Amphion at the Paris Opera house; and twelve paintings for the great hall of the council of state in the Palais Royal. His Scenes from the Life of St Genevieve, which he designed for the Panthéon, remained unfinished at his death. The Musée d'Orsay has his famous Plague in Rome (shown at the Salon of 1869) and a nude figure of Diana; and the Nantes Museum, the Lesson on the Flute. In the last decade of his life he achieved great popularity as a portrait painter. He was awarded a first-class medal at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and the medal of honor in 1889. In 1878 he became an officer of the Legion of Honor, and the following year was made a member of the Institute.

Works at the Opera Garnier, City Hall Paris, nave of the Pantheon Paris, Palais Royal, Court of Cassation, Council of State Paris. Museums: Carlsberg Glyptotek, Kobenhavn, Orsay Paris, G. Moreau Museum Paris. The Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes has the largest collection of works by the painter born in Nantes.
Public sales results
Nude Oil / canvas, 103.5 x 116 cm Hammer price: 39870 € Christie's, London 30/03/2001
Inspiration Oil / canvas, 105x 120 cm 21200 € Wetterwald Auctions Nice 18/06/2000
Bay of Naples Oil / paper / canvas, 11.7 x 39.5cm 12600 € Beaussant-Lefevre Paris 14/03/2007
Capri (1859) Oil / paper / canvas, 17 x 35.5 cm 12500 € Beaussant-Lefevre Paris 14/03/2007
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