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Paul Delaroche (born July 17, 1797, Paris—died Nov. 4, 1859, Paris) was a painter whose painstakingly realistic historical subjects made him one of the most successful academic artists of mid-19th-century France. Delaroche’s father was an art expert, his uncle was curator of the Cabinet des Estampes, and his brother was the painter Jules-Hippolyte Delaroche. In 1832 he became a professor at the Ɖcole Nationale SupĆ©rieure des Beaux-Arts and was made a member of the institute....