Tony Robert-Fleury

Toni Robert -Fleury ( born September 1, 1837 in Paris, † December 8, 1911 in Viroflay, Seine- et- Oise ) was a French history painter.

Life

Toni Robert -Fleury was the son of Joseph Nicolas Robert -Fleury. After school, Robert -Fleury became a pupil of the painter Léon Cogniet. By whose recommendation he came later in the studio of Paul Delaroche. There, joined Robert -Fleury, soon became friends with the other students, such as Gustave Boulanger, Louis Gallet and Ernest Hebert.

In addition to his works from the history of Robert -Fleury also created portraits and genre scenes.

Pupils / students ( selection)

  • Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)
  • Franklin Brownell
  • E. Irving Couse
  • Louis Paul Dessar
  • Eurilda France
  • Ellen Day Hale
  • Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856-1942)
  • Louis Aston Knight
  • Arnold Green Lyon (1871-1935)
  • Mary MacMonnies
  • Phoebe Natt
  • Lawton S. Parker (1868-1954)
  • Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933)
  • Edward Redfield

Works (selection)

  • Warsaw in April (1861 )
  • The Polish uprising
  • The old women of the Piazza Navona in Rome ( 1867)
  • The Danaids (1873 )
  • Charlotte Corday in Caen 1793 (1874)
  • The capture of Corinth ( 1870)
  • Doctor Pinel, who freed the lunatics of Salpétrière from their bonds (1795 )
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