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Joseph-nicolas Robert-fleury




He was sent by his family to Paris , and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso at the Convent of St Onophrius.

Endowed with a vigorous original talent, and with a vivid imagination, especially for the tragic incidents of history, he soon rose to fame, and in 1850 succeeded François Granet as member of the Académie Des Beaux-Arts . In 1855 he was appointed professor and in 1863 director of the École Des Beaux-Arts , and in the following year he went to Rome as director of the French Academy in that city.

Among his chief works are:
  • ''A Reading at Mme. de Sévigné's,'' ''Scene of St Bartholomew,'' ''Henry IV. taken to the Louvre after his Assassination'' (1836)

  • ''Triumphal Entry of Clovis at Tours'' (1838), at the Versailles Museum

  • ''Le Colloque de Poissy'' (1840), at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris

  • ''The Children of Louis XVI.'' in the Temple (1840)

  • ''Marino Faliero''

  • ''An Autodafé''

  • ''Galileo before the Holy Office,'' at the Luxembourg Museum

  • ''Christopher Columbus received by the Spanish Court'' (1847), at the same gallery

  • ''The Last Moments of Montaigne'' (1853); and ''Charles V. in the Monastery of Yuste'' (1857).


His son, Tony Robert-Fleury , was also a painter.



  NAME Robert-Fleury, Joseph Nicolas
  ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robert-Fleury, JosephRobert-Fleury, Joseph-NicolasFleury, Joseph Nicolas
  SHORT DESCRIPTION french painter
  DATE OF BIRTH August 8 1797
  PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , Germany
  DATE OF DEATH May 5 1890
  PLACE OF DEATH Paris