He is known for his portraits and frescoes. Jules-Élie Delaunay was an important French artist of the nineteenth century. Jules-Élie Delaunay was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, and at the age of twenty enrolled at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris, where he studied among the renowned artists of his time.
Jules-Élie Delaunay achieved his first major success in 1853, when he won the "Second Grand Prix de Rome" (a scholarship established by the French government for the most deserving art students, which allowed him to spend four years in Rome) for the painting Jésus chassant les vendeurs du Temple (Jesus drives away the temple sellers). A few years later, in 1856, he again won the Second Grand Prix de Rome for his painting Le Retour du jeune Tobie (The Return of Young Tobias). During his time in Rome, he moved away from Raphael's ideal of perfection and turned to the truth and rigor of 15th century painting.
Century. Nevertheless, he was a classical painter, and one of his greatest inspirations was undoubtedly Ingres. Some of the works for which he is most remembered are the painting of the church of Saint Nicolas in Nantes. He also created the 5 panels for the Paris Opera House (Apollo, Orpheus, Amphion) and the 12 paintings for the Council of State room at the Palais Royal.
He also decorated the honorary staircase of the Paris City Hall and created numerous panels depicting the lives of Saints Geneviève and Attila for the nave of the Pantheon. Delaunay worked so intensively on the latter that after 15 years it was and still is unfinished. In 1879 Delaunay was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1889 was appointed head of the studio at the Paris School of Fine Arts. Delaunay, who was friends with the wealthy music lover Ernest Legouvé, directed the art classes of his nephew (who would later become the painter George Desvallières). Delaunay and Desvallières became such good friends that they traveled together to Ticino in 1884. There Delaunay introduced him to Gustave Moreau. Moreau and Delaunay served as best men at the wedding of George Desvallières and Marguerite Lefebvre in 1890. Jules-Élie Delaunay died at his Paris home at 58 rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in the 9th arrondissement 3 on September 5, 1891, and was buried in Miséricorde Cemetery in Nantes.
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.jpg "Ixion Thrown into Hades, 1876 by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Mother of the Artist, 1869 by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "The Plague in Rome by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "The Plague in Rome by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Saint Genevieve calms the Parisians by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Male Figure Kneeling by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson, 1890 by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_Painting_by_Jules_Elie_Delaunay_(18_-_(MeisterDrucke-999941).jpg "Portrait of Madame Georges Bizet (1849-1926) by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-53472).jpg "Portrait of Henri Meilhac by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1519307).jpg "Apollo receiving the lyre from the hands of Music (circa 1870) by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Attila on the March to Paris, from The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, 1920 by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Father of the Artist by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Study for \"Public Instruction\" by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "The Judgement of Paris by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1652394).jpg "Portrait of Charles Gounod by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Study for Resurrection by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_by_Mozart)_-_(MeisterDrucke-918217).jpg "Portrait of Charles Gounod (with the score of Don Giovanni by Mozart) based on the portrait of Elie Delaunay. Engraving from 1887 in")
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.jpg "Study of a Standing Draped Figure by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Group of Portrait and Compositional Studies by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Madame Marie Toulmouche by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "David Triumphant by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_1884_-_(MeisterDrucke-583510).jpg "Portrait of Francois Regnier de la Briere, 1884 by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-947230).jpg "David Triumphant by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "The Torment of Ixion by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Study of a Horse and Rider by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Studies of Horses by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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.jpg "Seated Academic Nude by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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_1884_S_-_(MeisterDrucke-946466).jpg "Portrait of Madame Toulmouche by Jules Elie Delaunay")
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