Delaborde Henri

Born: 1811

Death: 1899

Biography:

Count Henri Delaborde was a French art critic and historical painter, born in Rennes, son of Count Henri François Delaborde.
He studied for some time in Paris with Delaroche and afterward produced historical pictures of a rather conventional classical type. Among them are:
He also painted frescoes in the Saint Clotilde Basilica. But he is known principally as a critic of art. Besides his writings, as perpetual secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes and other periodicals. The articles have been collected as Mélanges sur l'art contemporain (1866) and Etudes sur les beaux-arts en France et en Italie (1864). He published, among other volumes:
Count Delaborde was elected to the Institute in 1868 and was conservator of the department of prints in the National Library, Paris, from 1855 to 1885.

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