Paul Delaroche

1797–1856 · Romanticism

Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche was a French painter known for his depiction of scenes from English and French history. The emotions emphasised in Delaroche's paintings appeal to Romanticism while the detail of his work along with the deglorified portrayal of historic figures follow the trends of Academicism and Neoclassicism. Delaroche aimed to depict his subjects and history with pragmatic realism. He did not consider popular ideals and norms in his creations, but rather painted all his subjects in the same light whether they were historical figures like Marie-Antoinette, figures of Christianity, or people of his time like Napoleon Bonaparte. Delaroche was a leading pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and later mentored a number of notable artists such as Thomas Couture, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Jean-François Millet.

39 paintings

• Offering to the God Pan (1855)
• Portrait d'homme sur son lit de mort, autrefois dit Armand Carrel (1840)
• The Victors of the Bastille in Front of the Hôtel de Ville (1834)
• Portrait d'Horace Delaroche (1838)
• Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 31 March 1814 (1845)
• The Sequel to a duel (1825)
• La Femme de l'artiste, Louise Vernet, sur son lit de mort (1846)
• Gregory XVI, Pope (1765-1846) (1844)
• Charles de Rémusat (1843)
• Le Retour du Golgotha (1856)
• The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (1834)
• Cromwell discovering the coffin of Charles I (1831)
• Mozes in het biezenkistje (1836)
• Joan of Arc is interrogated by The Cardinal of Winchester in her prison (1824)
• The Christian Martyr (1853)
• Girl in a Basin (1845)
• Portrait of Delfina Potocka (1807–1877) (1849)
• Portrait of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861) (1857)
• Head of a boy. (1801)
• Saint Amelia, Queen of Hungary (1831)
• Napoleon at Fontainebleau, 31 March 1814 (1846)
• Napoleon crossing the Alps, May 1800 (1853)
• Napoleon at St Helena (1855)
• Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist (1843)
• Portrait of Philippe-Grégoire Delaroche, the Artist’s Younger Son (1851)
• Saint Vincent de Paul Preaching to the Court of Louis XIII on Behalf of the Abandoned Children (1823)
• Marie Antoinette
• Saint Sebastian
• The Statesman and Historian Guizot (1839)
• Les joies d'une mère (1843)
• Cromwell devant le cercueil de Charles Ier (1831)
• Christian Martyr Drowned in the Tiber During the Reign of Diocletian (1853)
• Resting on the Banks of the Tiber (1838)
• Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (1848)
• The Young Martyr (1855)
• The Children of Edward (1830)
• Le comte Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (1846)
• Marquis de Pastoret (1829)
• The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833)