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Jules-Elie Delaunay (June 13 1828 September 5 1891) was a French painter Born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique of France, Delaunay studied under Flandrin and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
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 Raphaelesqueperfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists. As a pure and firm draughtsman he stands second only to Ingres.
After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many importamt commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the church of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of Apollo
Orpheusand Amphionat the Paris Operahouse; and twelve paintings or the great hall of the council of statein the Palais Royal His "Scenes from the Life of St Genevieve," which he designed for the Pantheon, remained unfinished at his death. The Luxembourg Museum has his famous "Plague in Rome" 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.
Jules-Elie Delaunay died in Paris in 1891.