Paul Jean
Flandren

Paul Jean Flandrin (FR. Paul Jean Flandrin), may 28, 1811, Lyon — March 8, 1902, Paris) was a French painter of religious painting, portrait, caricaturist, the younger brother of the painter Hippolyte Flandrin, was married to the daughter of the artist Alexander Desgoffe.

He received his artistic training at the school Saint-Pierre in Lyon, and then was a pupil of Ingres in Paris. At first, he wrote historical paintings and landscapes, but then, after several trips to France and Italy, has focused exclusively on landscape painting. Nature in his paintings almost always has the idyllic nature, the impression of silence and trudnosti, although is retreating for this purpose from the absolute truth. The scenery Flandrena encountered the praise of art critics belong:

"View in the Sabine mountains" (nah. at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris) "A group of oaks" "The papal Palace in Avignon" (1870) "Memories of Dauphine" "Bugajski valley in the mountains, in the" n "Department" "Pine forest" "Normandy farm".

In the baptismal chapel of the Paris Church of St. Severin this artist is written in two wall paintings: "the Preaching of John the Baptist" and "Baptism of the Lord."