Hippolyte Flandrin: A Nineteenth Century Master, Part I

Hippolyte Flandrin: A Nineteenth Century Master, Part I

By Stephen Gjertson In 1857, seven years before the artist’s death, the eminent French art critic, Edmund About, wrote of Hippolyte Flandrin, “If posterity is just it will call him ‘Flandrin without fault.’ . . .” Unfortunately, posterity has not been just and...