Félix-Hippolyte Lanoue

Place: Versailles

Born: 1812

Death: 1872

Biography:

Félix-Hippolyte Lanoüe was a French landscape painter. Around 1830, he became a student of Jean-Victor Bertin, then entered the workshop of Horace Vernet at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. He was given an award for his use of perspective in 1832 and came in at second place for historical landscapes at the Prix de Rome of 1837. Four years later, he received the Prix de Rome and studied at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1842 to 1845. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1834 to 1868 and won a third-class medal in 1848 and a second-class medal in 1855. He became a knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1855. His works are characterized by their attention to detail and their romantic sensibility. He often depicted scenes from the French countryside and coast, as well as historical and mythological subjects. Some of his most famous works include 'View of La Cava' (1840), 'The Flood in the Vaucluse' (1846), and 'The Abduction of Europa' (1855).