About Étienne-Jean Delécluze
Lived 1781 – 1863 (aged 82). Étienne-Jean Delécluze was a French painter, art historian, writer, literary historian and art critic.
Etienne-Jean Delecluze, For my dad, 1818. Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon Etienne-Jean Delécluze (26 February 1781 – 12 July 1863) was a French painter and critic.
From 1797 on, he was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, as he describes in his biography of David. As one of his favorite pupils, he was invited to David's last meal in France before going to Brussels in 1816. From 1822 on, he worked as a critic for the Journal des débats.
His book Louis David, son école et son temps (Paris, 1857) was quite politically controversial, and he had to rewrite it in order to restore his reputation.
He was a maternal uncle of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and in charge of Viollet-le-Duc's education for some time.
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French painter and critic (1781-1863)
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Étienne-Jean Delécluze was born on 26 February 1781 in Paris.
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Étienne-Jean Delécluze died on 12 July 1863 in Versailles.
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Étienne-Jean Delécluze was a painter, art historian, writer, literary historian and art critic.
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Étienne-Jean Delécluze was French.
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