![]() ![]() ![]() The focus on the rendering of color with a minimum of light-at the precise moment of moonrise-is exceptional even for an artist who typically relied on contre-jour to achieve a curiously refined austerity in his paintings. ![]() But its real subject is the deep yet fleeting tones of a sunset’s afterglow. The villa it depicts was owned by the Torlonia family, bankers who grew rich during the Napoleonic era and whose name would have been well-known to every Frenchman residing in Rome during the early nineteenth century. This study was painted at Frascati, thirteen miles from the city. Once in Rome, where he remained until 1839, Paul’s talents as a landscape painter began to flourish. Ingres himself assumed the directorship of the French Academy in Rome in 1835, thus extending an artistic franchise whose familial overtones would only deepen over time. In 1832 Hippolyte became Ingres’s first pupil to win the Grand Prix de Rome for history painting, but when Paul failed to secure the prize the following year he joined his brother in Italy anyway, reaching him in early 1834. In 1829 Paul Flandrin and his elder brother Hippolyte entered the atelier of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and soon earned the master’s affection and respect. ![]()
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