Hippolyte Lazerges


Jean Raymond Hippolyte Lazerges (1817–1887) was a French painter, and composer of mélodies and chansons.

Hippolyte Lazerges
Portrait of Hippolyte Lazerges
Born5 July 1817
Narbonne, France
DiedOctober, 1886
Mustapha, Algeria
NationalityFrench
EducationDavid d'Angers, sculptor; François Bouchot painter
Known forComposer, songwriter and painter
MovementOrientalist

Life and career

Lazerges was born in Narbonne, France, where his father was a baker.[1] He studied in Paris under the sculptor David d'Angers and the painter François Bouchot.[2]

He travelled to Algeria with his father in 1830.[3] His paintings often depicted Oriental women engaged in every-day activities such as preparing fleece and working at their primitive looms. [4]

Among his light songs Éloge du tabac has been recorded by Paul Van Nevel's Huelgas Ensemble.

His son Jean-Baptiste Paul Lazerges (1845–1902) was also a painter.[5]

He died in Si-Mustapha, a suburb of Algiers, Algeria.

  • Rêverie, 1883
  • Portrait de Marie Dorval, c.1846
  • Portrait du Christ, 1853
  • La Présentation au Temple, 1855
  • Napoléon III rendant visite aux sinistrés des inondations de Lyon, 1856
  • Autour de la fontaine en Afrique du Nord, c.1875
  • Café maure à Alger, 1878

Awards and recognition

He obtained two medals in 1843 and 1848 and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1867. [6]

See also

References
  1. "Hippolyte Lazerges" [Biographical sketch] in: Lepage, J., Le Mirage Oriental: La Peinture Orientaliste Dans les Collections du Musée d'art et d'histoire de Narbonne, Musées de Narbonne, 2000
  2. L'Art en France sous le Second Empire Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts - 1979 "Musée national du Château Jean-Raymond-Hippolyte Lazerges Narbonne 1817 - 1887 Mustapha (Algérie) Peintre, mais aussi auteur de mélodies el de chansons, Lazerges fut à Paris l'élève du sculpteur David d'Angers et du peintre F. Bouchot."
  3. Cazenave, E. (ed.), Les Artistes de l'Algérie: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, 1830-1962, Bernard Giovanangeli Éditeur, 2001, p. 298
  4. Thornton, L., Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting, ACR edition, 1994, p. 144
  5. Peintures du XIXe siècle: 1800-1914 Véronique Miltgen, Musée des beaux-arts de Tours, Véronique Miltgen - 2001 -"Jean-Baptiste Paul LAZERGES Paris, 1845 - Asnières-sur-Seine, 1902. Élève d'Hippolyte Lazerges, son père, une des grandes figures du renouveau de la peinture religieuse au xix'f siècle, Paul Lazerges débute comme portraitiste à partir de 1867."
  6. The Magazine of Art, Volume 11, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1888, p. 431
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