Hippolyte Flandrin belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Hippolyte Flandrin as French painter (1809-1864).
Hippolyte Flandrin was born at Lyon in 1809. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon and French Academy in Rome.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is neoclassicism.
Among his best-known works are Jeune Fille and Madame Hippolyte Flandrin. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Recognition followed: Prix de Rome (1832), Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was made in France shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Hippolyte Flandrin died in 1864, aged 55. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Prix de Rome — 1832
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Notable work: Jeune Fille
- Notable work: Madame Hippolyte Flandrin
- Movement: Neoclassicism
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