Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin

See also: Forbin

Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin , painter and French expert, born in 1777 with the Castle of Castling (Rhone delta), died in 1841 with Paris.

It was with Lyon at the time of the seat of this city by the Convention, saw there perishing under its eyes his father and his/her uncle, was collected and raised by a skilful Lyons draftsman, Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, which initiated it with the practice of its art, enlisted in order to escape the proscription and was not long in being distinguished; but took its leave early in order to devote itself to its taste for painting. In Paris, it took courses near the painter Demarne, but left its workshop to become pupil of Jacques Louis David. After be usedhaving again been used in a regiment as cavalry, he visited the Italy, where he obtained the protection of the princess Borghese.

Named, with the Restoration, managing director of the museums, it increases that of the Louvre and special with the Luxembourg for works of the alive painters establishes some.

Skilful painter itself, it produced, inter alia works:

the Eruption of the Vesuvius , which opened the doors of the to him Académie of the Art schools;
the Died of Pline ;
the Vision of OS ;
the Procession of the Penitent blacks ;
a Scene of the Enquiry ;
Ines of Castro ;
the Campo Santode Pisa ;
the Cloister of Santa Maria Novella with Florence .

One has of him:

a Voyage in Raising , 1819;
of the Memories of Sicily , 1823;
a Month in Venice , 1824, works accompanied by sights taken by itself.

One published in 1843 his Portefeuille , with a text written by the Count de Marcelus, his son-in-law.

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