Henri Delaborde

Who was Henri Delaborde?

Count Henri Delaborde was a French art critic and historical painter, born in Rennes, son of Count Henri françoise Delaborde. He studied for some time in Paris with Delaroche and afterward produced historical pictures of a rather conventional classical type. Among them are:

Hagar in the Desert

St. Augustine

The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem restoring religion in Armenia, at Versailles

He also painted frescoes in the Saint Clotilde Basilica. But he is known principally as a critic of art. Besides his writings, as perpetual secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes and other periodicals. The articles have been collected as Mélanges sur l'art contemporain and Etudes sur les beaux-arts en France et en Italie. He published, among other volumes:

Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine

Lettres et pensés d'Hippolyte Flandrin

Gérard Edelinck

La gravure

La gravure en Italie

Marc Antoine Raimondi

La Maîtres florentins du XV siècle

L'Académie des Beaux-Arts depuis la fondation de l'Institut de France