Henri Delaborde (painter)

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Henri Delaborde (1886);
portrait by Léon Bonnat.

Count Henri Delaborde (1811–1899) was a French

Count Henri François Delaborde
.

Life and career

He studied for some time in Paris with

Delaroche
and afterward produced historical pictures of a rather conventional classical type. Among them are:

  • Hagar in the Desert (1836,
    Dijon Museum
    )
  • St. Augustine (1837)
  • The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem restoring religion in Armenia (1844), at Versailles
Constantin III of Armenia (Guy de Lusignan) on his throne with the Hospitallers
. "Les chevaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem rétablissant la religion en Arménie", 1844 painting by Henri Delaborde.

He also painted frescoes in the

Saint Clotilde Basilica. But he is known principally as a critic of art. Besides his writings, as perpetual secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
, he contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes and other periodicals. The articles have been collected as Mélanges sur l'art contemporain (1866) and Etudes sur les beaux-arts en France et en Italie (1864). He published, among other volumes:

Count Delaborde was elected to the Institute in 1868 and was conservator of the department of prints in the National Library, Paris, from 1855 to 1885.

References

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905).
    New International Encyclopedia
    (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead

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