Pierre perez claude francois biography

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    • Pierre Claude François Delorme

    French painter

    Pierre Claude François Delorme (1783–1859) was a French painter and printmaker. He studied art under Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. He exhibited at The Salon in Paris from 1810 to 1851. He lithographed many compositions after Girodet-Trioson.[1]

    His most important works include The Death of Abel, Hero and Leander, Rising of the Daughter of Jairus, Descent of Christ into Limbo, and Cephalus Carried Off by Aurora.[2]Christ in Limbo (1819) is among the collection of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant.[3]

    He held art workshops in his studio for young girls. One of his students was Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, the granddaughter of politician and diplomat Félix Desportes.[4]

    Gallery

    • Paolo and Francesca, Musée de la Vie Romantique

    • Jesus Raising the Daughter of Jairus, 1817

    • Hector reproaching Pâris, 1824, Amiens, Musée de Picardie

    • Héro and Léa