Thursday, 30 May 1861
Gray cloudy, warm.
Morning at Modern Exhibition: Lanoues1 & other works &c.
Called on Pantaleone, who afterwards called on me.
Lacäita also, who has just come here, so I went & saw old Lady Carmichael ― who ― sad life ― is taking the little boy southward.
Dined at 4. At the Louvre, (after calling at Lady C.’s ―) by 6, & off to Rail.
Place to Turin. Got good place, opposite [was] a pleasant young Liverpool merchant, who knew Ashtons, Edwards, everybody. ― We talked a good deal ― & the night ˇ[was] soon past.
[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]
- I can’t find any information on this landscape painter, but in Maxime du Camp, Le Salon de 1861, Paris: Librairie nouvelle, 1861, p. 158 one can read: “M. Lanoue a envoyé neuf toiles qui toutes se distinguent par des efforts consciencieux: sa Forêt de pins du Gombo est de grande tourure, pleine d’air et conçue dans un système de coloration habile qui a permis au peintre d’avoisiner sans crudité des verts et des bleus.” [↩]
Perhaps this fellow?
LANOUE, FELIX HIPPOLYTE, born in Versailles, Oct. 14, 1812, died at Ivry, Jan. 21, 1872. Landscape painter, pupil of V. Bertin, Horace Vernet, and of the Ecole des Beaux Arts ; won the 2d prix for landscape in 1837, the grand prix in 1841 ; went a second time to Italy, as also to Russia and Holland, and returned to Paris a landscape painter of the naturalistic school. Medals : 2d class, 1847, 1861 ; L of Honour, 1864.
Read more: Felix Hippolyte Lanoue – Museum http://www.projectsmartart.org/art-encyclopedia/pages/cni7rmhlpt/felix-hippolyte-lanoue-museum.html#ixzz1NrR8HFP5