Eugene Lami

Eugene Louis Lami is a painter and French decorator born in Paris the January 12th 1800 and died in Paris in 1890. Painter of the elegant life in Paris under the Monarchy of July and the Second Empire, he is also painter of history and illustrator of books like Gil Blas or Manon Lescaut .

Biography

Eugene Lami studied initially painting with Horace Vernet which, in 1817, sent it to continue its formation near the baron Gros with the École of the fine arts where it was the knowledge of Theodore Géricault and learned the watercolour from the romantic painter English Richard Parkes Bonington.

A big part of the first works of Lami were lithographies, support which then started to be exploited commercially. Between 1819 and 1821, it produced many Lithographie S on the Spanish cavalry, as well as important series concerning the uniforms of the French Army. Its representations of military subjects drew to him the attention of the royal family. Louis-Philippe ordered to him many tables on military subjects for the museum of the history of France which it had created with the Château of Versailles.

Eugene Lami was then directed worms of the scenes of kind, painting the elegant life of the court and the middle-class. He turned to the Aquarelle, which was to become its technique of predilection for the remainder of its life. He was also charged by the baron James de Rothschild with decoration with the Château with Tool bags, completed in 1859.

On late, it was interested more and more in the scenes of history. At seventy-nine years, it founded the Company of the French painters in watercolours. It continued to paint until its death, at the ninety years age.

Works

Charles Ier receiving a pink of the hands of an young girl, at the moment when it is led prisoner to the castle of Carisbrook, to be soon condemned and carried out , 1829, hst., Paris, Musée of Louvre (Reproduction on the insecula basis)
Entrée of the duchess of Orleans the Garden of Tileries , about 1840, hst., 97 cm X 60 cm, Paris, Musée of Louvre (Reproduction on the insecula basis)
Arrivée of the Victoria queen at the castle of Have, September 2nd, 1843 , 1844, hst., 84 cm X 141 cm, Versailles, Castle of Versailles (Reproduction on the Mona Lisa basis)
Ball with the Palate of Buckingham, July 5th, 1848 , 1848, watercolour, London, Royal The Collection (Reproduction on the site of Royal The Collection)
the Ball Stuart with the Palate of Buckingham, June 13rd, 1851 , 1851, watercolour, London, Royal The Collection (Reproduction on the site of Royal The Collection)
Arrived of the Victoria queen and the duke of Wellington at the palate of Saint-James , about 1851, watercolour, 14,8 cm X 19 cm, London, Courtauld Institute off Art Gallery (reproduction on the www.artandarchitecture.org.uk site)
Henri IV with the battle of Arch , 1873,35 cm X 43 cm, Pau, National museum of the castle (Reproduction on the Joconde basis)
Couple being embraced in a workshop of artists , 1881, watercolour, Malibu, John Paul Getty Museum (reproduction on the site of John Paul Getty Museum)
the Assassination of Henri IV , oil on paper, 23,2 cm X 34,1 cm, London, Courtauld Institute off Art Gallery (reproduction on the www.artandarchitecture.org.uk site)
Intérieur of a gallery , watercolour, 40,7 cm X 57,3 cm, London, Courtauld Institute off Art Gallery (reproduction on the www.artandarchitecture.org.uk site)

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