Paul Delaroche

February 26th, 2010 admin

Hippolyte (Paul) Delaroche was a French academic painter who helped set the standards for late 19th Century history painting. Though denigrated in subsequent times (and at the time by upstarts like the Impressionists), history painting was the core of mainstream academic painting, then the artistic establishment; and Delaroche, along with Eug


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