. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . aris). Henry Anger. Delaroche, Hippolyte (known also as Paul),painter, b. at Paris, 17 July, 1797; d. 4 November,1856. A pupil of Watelet, a landscape painter ofmediocre ability, and afterwards of Gros, a greatpainter but a very poor teacher and incapable of har-monizing his doctrines with his genius, Delaroche wasconsequently badly trained. Without any deep con-ception of mankind or of life, without style, and lackingeven a novel idea along
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . aris). Henry Anger. Delaroche, Hippolyte (known also as Paul),painter, b. at Paris, 17 July, 1797; d. 4 November,1856. A pupil of Watelet, a landscape painter ofmediocre ability, and afterwards of Gros, a greatpainter but a very poor teacher and incapable of har-monizing his doctrines with his genius, Delaroche wasconsequently badly trained. Without any deep con-ception of mankind or of life, without style, and lackingeven a novel idea along the lines of art or beauty,Delaroche was nevertheless gifted with a certain com-monplace skill and aptitude which satisfied the public, and, whilst fullyrealizing his nar-row limitations, hewas astute enoughto supply the wantof artistic abilityby an ingeniouschoice of lay hisgenius, if indeedit may so be this he appealedto the taste of thebourgeoisie which,devoid of artisticculture, had in therole of Maecenassucceeded the aris-tocracy of the oldregime and defin-itively come intopower during theRestoration andthe July Mon-. Paul Delaroche archy. The artists debut in the salon of 1819 withNaphtali in the Desert passed by unnoticed. An-other Biblical subject appeared in the salon of 1822,and in 1824 he won the gold medal. Delaroche dis-covered his vein and thenceforth, except for the occa-sional treatment of some current event (The Capture ofthe Trocadero, 1827), he worked upon thatseries of his-torical incidents, that vast repertory of anecdotes gen-erally taken from the civil wars of France and Englandand which, when multiplied by the engravings ofGoupil, the publisher, who thereby made a fortune,became equally valuable to the author in Paris andLondon. We must admit that Delaroche was admir-ably served by his engravers, of whom Henriquel Du-pont was the best known. His inartistic paintinggained much by being translated into engraving as, inthis way, on
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