Young Man by the Sea, Hippolyte Flandrin

This is a reproduction of the 1837 masterpiece by Hippolyte Flandrin.  He painted this iconic work while in Rome studying there having won the Prix de Rome in Paris in 1832.  The emperor Napoleon III bought the painting in 1857.  The painting has brought forth commentary and ideas from most art critics since it appeared.  It is Flandrin's most famous work even though executed early in his career.  He was twenty-eight when this was completed and he died twenty-seven years later.  The work is currently at Louvre.

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Polites, Hippolyte Flandrin, 1832

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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