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François Flameng (1856–1923) was a very successful French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of a celebrated engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft. Flameng initially received renown for his history painting and portraiture, and became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He decorated such important civic buildings as the Sorbonne and the Opera Comique, and also produced advertising work. Flameng was granted France's highest civilian honor, the Legion d'Honneur, and designed France's first bank notes. ==Works== Flameng's portraits include: *Family Portrait of a Boy and His Two Sisters *Fashionable Beauty *Portrait of a Girl Holding Her Two Toy Elephants *Portrait of Auguste Rodin *Two portraits of Princess Zinaida Yusupova in Arkhangelskoye *Portrait of Elsie Salomon Duveen, wife of the art dealer Joseph Duveen, an oval in the Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull. * Portrait of Queen Alexandra, consort of King Edward VII, full-length seated, in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace. Flameng's history painting included: *The Carnival, Venice *Court Ladies Bathing in the 18th century *Molière Demanding an Audience With King Louis XIV at Versailles *Napoléon Studying Military History *Reception at Malmaison, 1802 Flameng later received renown for his painting of World War I. He was named honorary president of the Society of Military Painters and an accredited documenter for the War Ministry. His work was displayed in the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, as well as being reproduced in newsmagazines. Although his paintings seem romantic to eyes which have seen photographs of genocide and nuclear war, at the time they were painted, Flameng's war paintings were derided by many critics for being too realistic and not including heroic drama. Most of his war paintings were donated to the Musée de l'Armée in 1920. They include: *A Machine Gun Company of Chasseurs Alpins in the Barren Winter Landscape of the Vosges *The Battle of the Yser in 1914 *The Donkey, Somme, 1916 *The Forgotten Front *Heavy Artillery on the Railway, October 1916 In 1919 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding Academician. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「François Flameng」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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