Membre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts : France 1879
Jules-Élie Delaunay was a French painter. He studied under Flandrin and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and worked in the classicist manner of Ingres until, after winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Italy in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists. As a pure and firm draughtsman he stands second only to Ingres.
