{"id":7929,"date":"2017-02-15T21:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7929"},"modified":"2022-08-25T00:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:41:20","slug":"botanicals-flower-composition-bouquet-paul-de-longpre-pair-antique-prints-sold","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/botanicals-flower-composition-bouquet-paul-de-longpre-pair-antique-prints-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanicals, Flower Composition, Bouquet, Paul de Longpre, Pair Antique Prints (sold)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Paul de Longpr\u00e9 (also spelled \u201cDelongpre\u201d) was an American artist specializing in floral paintings.\u00a0 Born to a family of artists near Lyon, France, at age 12 he was at work at the family trade of painting floral designs for textiles produced in the mills of Lyon, then a center for the silk industry.\u00a0 He eventually came to Paris and became a popular painter of flowers, especially roses, and had chromolithographs after his work published in horticultural periodicals.\u00a0 He emigrated to New York City in 1890 and is known to have had an exhibition of mostly floral paintings in 1896.\u00a0 In 1898, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he quickly developed a clientele for his work, including the widow of the original developer of Hollywood, from whom he purchased a parcel of land with three of his paintings.\u00a0 There he built a mansion and three-acre garden with over 3,000 rose bushes that became Hollywood\u2019s first tourist attraction.\u00a0 He spent the rest of his life there, continuing to paint his characteristically realist paintings of flowers and roses, often from his own garden, earning him the nickname \u201cLe Roi de Fleurs\u201d (the King of Flowers).\u00a0 Though the house was torn down a few years after his death, one of the nearby streets is named De Longpre Avenue after him.\u00a0 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has two of his watercolors in their collection.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e9n\u00e9zit, E. <em>Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs.<\/em>\u00a0 France: Librairie Gr\u00fcnd, 1966.\u00a0 Vol. 5, p. 623.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeatured Artist Paul de Longpr\u00e9.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Irvine Museum.<\/em>\u00a0 2006. http:\/\/www.irvinemuseum.org\/artist.html (22 March 2006).<\/p>\n<p>Fielding, Mantle.\u00a0 <em>Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers.<\/em>\u00a0 Green Farms, Connecticut: Modern Books and Crafts, 1926, rev. ed. 1974.\u00a0 p. 219.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul de Longpr\u00e9.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Los Angeles County Museum of Art.<\/em>\u00a0 1997-2002.\u00a0 http:\/\/collectionsonline.lacma.org\/mwebcgi\/mweb.exe?request=browse&amp;dept=prints<br \/>\n&amp;method=artist&amp;searchtype=2&amp;term=Longpre,%20Paul%20de%20(Artist) (22 March 2006).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul Delongpre.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Union List of Artists Names Online Full Record Display.<\/em>\u00a0 http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/vow\/ULANFullDisplay?find=de+longpre&amp;role=&amp;nation=&amp;<br \/>\nprev_page=1&amp;subjectid=500103116 (22 March 2006).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul de Longpr\u00e9 (1855-1911) (after)<br \/>\nKnapp Co. 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