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Old Romantic Painting EPINAT FLEURY 1764 – 1830 study of Jacques-Louis David
Old Romantic Painting / wood signed E Fleury 17…was a student of Jacques-Louis David.
It has an old restoration. The board was split and joined with an ancient technique. See photo of the back.
It has a beautiful old pine frame.
total dimensions 50cm x 55 cm (20” x 22”)
dimensions only painting 40cm x 45 cm (16”x 18”)
Biography:
Fleury Épinat was a French painter who lived from 1764 to 1830. He was born in Montbrison, a town in the Loire department of France. He came from a humble family and did not receive much education. He moved to Paris when he was young and became a student of Jacques-Louis David, a famous neoclassical painter. He followed David to Rome in 1784 and spent five years in Italy, where he painted historical landscapes inspired by the works of Milton, Tasso, and Pliny. He also met Lord Ailesbury, a British nobleman who supported him and invited him to London. He returned to France in 1800 and settled in Lyon, where he continued to paint landscapes, especially of the Alps and Provence. He also taught painting to the public and private students. He received the decoration of the Lys, a royal order of merit, in 1815. He died in Lyon in 1830.
Some of his works are:
Tour Sainte-Colombe et couvent des cordeliers en 1793, a painting attributed to him that shows a building with a square tower in the countryside of Rome.
L’Abbaye de Vallombrosa dans la campagne Toscane, a painting that depicts the Vallombrosa Abbey in Tuscany, where Milton composed his epic poem Paradise Lost.
La Fraîche Matinée, a painting that portrays a fresh morning in a rural landscape with peasants and animals