This is a reproduction of Hippolyte Flandrin’s “Polites Watching the Greeks” of 1832. The artist was born in Lyons in 1809 and studied in Paris under Ingres. In the year of this painting he won the Grand Prix de Rome. He spent the next five years in the papal city and returned to Paris where he enjoyed considerable fame. At the age of fifty-five he returned to Rome where he died of small pox. This early work of the French master has a brooding quality which expressed itself in many of Flandrin’s works. The original is in the Musee d’art Moderne in Saint Etienne.
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