François-Louis Français

François -Louis Français ( born November 17 1814 Plombières- les- Bains, † May 28, 1897 in Paris) was a French painter.

Life

Français joined a bookseller in Paris in the doctrine, then earned his living by drawing vignettes for the woodcut and made a name for himself as a lithographer. Then he made art studies under Jean- François Gigoux and Jean- Baptiste Camille Corot and presented at the Paris Salon of 1847 his first, painted in communion with Henri Baron landscape.

Andre pictures of him are: the park of St. Cloud, with figures of Meissonier, Sunset in Italy ( Gallery of Luxembourg), environs of Rome ( 1853), A footpath in the field ( 1855). In the Salon of 1861 appeared: View at Bas- Meudon; 1863: Orpheus at the grave of Eurydice ( in Luxembourg); 1864: The sacred grove, Italian villa; 1865: New excavations of Pompeii; 1866: Surroundings of Rome, around Paris; 1868: The Grumternte, The Munster Thal; 1869: The Mont Blanc; 1872: Images from the valley of Mountain Home, Daphnis and Chloe (Luxembourg), memory of Nice.

Français knew very well perform even simple designs with efficient drawing and true color, but loved it but a certain ideal train, which is not common in modern French; his Italian landscapes tended by appropriate stylization, but the nature of truth was no lack to emphasize. His quest was to the effect that romantic to connect with the stylized view of nature, which, however, he sometimes fell into academic cold.