Hippolyte Lazerges

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

Lazerges was born in Narbonne, France and studied in Paris under the sculptor David d'Angers and the painter François Bouchot.[1] He died in Si-Mustapha, a suburb of Algiers, Algeria.

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.[2]

References

  1. 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."
  2. 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."
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