Henri Delaborde (painter)

Count Henri Delaborde (1811–1899) was a French art critic and historical painter, born in Rennes, son of Count Henri François Delaborde.

He studied for some time in Paris with Delaroche and afterward produced historical pictures of a rather conventional classical type.

Among them are: He also painted frescoes in the Saint Clotilde Basilica.

The articles have been collected as Mélanges sur l'art contemporain (1866) and Etudes sur les beaux-arts en France et en Italie (1864).

He published, among other volumes: Count Delaborde was elected to the Institute in 1868 and was conservator of the department of prints in the National Library, Paris, from 1855 to 1885.