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1797 - 1856 • French • Painter • Neoclassicist/Romantic
"The public readily admires Jane Grey's pose. It admires the cautiousness of the hands, the sickly whiteness of the shoulders; there is nothing that is not approved of by interested viewers, even down to the left knee, resting alone on the pillow.' - Gustave Planche, 1834
Delaroche endeavored to portray scenes from the past, from religion and literature-HISTORY PAINTING-with the veracity of today's sharp-focus photography. He presented themes as if they were from a stage play, tableaux frozen in time. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1834) is a prime example: Blindfolded, wearing a brilliant white silk dress, the young woman is about to be beheaded. She is watched by her executioner, whose red tights presage the blood soon to flow onto straw so carefully painted that individual stalks could be counted. The composition is clear and balanced, details of costume and style are exact and dispassionately recorded. Yet the picture is fraught with implied if not explicit emotion. Delaroche was an artist who found a path between the extremes of cool NEOCLASSICISM and passionate ROMANTICISM a juste milieu, as it was called. The text quoted above is from a review of the SALON of 1834 in which Jane Grey was shown. Delaroche has a reputation as a gifted teacher, with more than 355 recorded pupils, GEROME and MILLET among them.
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