Jean Alaux
Jean Alaux, called "le Romain" ("the Roman"), (1786 – 2 March 1864) was a French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1846 to 1852.[1]
Biography
Alaux was born in Bordeaux, the son of a painter and the second of four brothers who all became painters. He received his first lessons in art from his father, but went on to a formal training with Pierre Lacour and later with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.[2] In 1807 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1808 he entered works for the Prix de Rome, but his energies were diverted when his elder brother, Jean-Francois Alaux (1783–1858), asked him to help with a large "neorama" (a type of Panorama) he was working on. Alaux eventually won the major Prix de Rome in 1815 with a work entitled Briseis weeping over the body of Patroclus, a scene inspired by the Iliad of Homer.[3] He subsequently became a pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome from 1816 to 1820 and went on to become its director.[1]
Among his fellow artists at the Academy were
Alaux was appointed as director of the French Academy in
Alaux died in Paris on 2 March 1864.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e A director of the French Academy in Rome (The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, 1891) pp. 352-5.
- ISBN 0883970759.
- ISBN 0883970759.
External links
- Paintings by Alaux (Insecula)
- Portrait of Jean Alaux by Ingres (Christie's)
- The atelier of Ingres in Rome (Christie's)
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