François-Louis LANFANT OF METZ

François Lanfant was born in Sierck in Moselle, in the east of France in 1814. He died in Le Havre in 1892. The artist always followed his surname Lanfant with the words "from Metz" to indicate his origin.

After a turbulent childhood and adolescence, he settled in Paris around 1843. He first exhibited works with historical subjects, then genre scenes until 1868.

His master was Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), a great genre painter of the French Romantic School.

The latter very quickly detected an exceptional talent as a designer. From 1843 to 1866, Lanfant de Metz exhibited successfully at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.

From this date, he settled in Le Havre, he mainly painted small format paintings where he depicted the world of carefree childhood, the joy of kids, mischievous and quarrelsome where the child is king.

His genre scenes are sometimes full of humor and always perfectly illustrate the spirit of the 19th century.

Lanfant de Metz's style is lively and precise at the same time. The characters' attitudes are full of life and truth. His palette is very colorful because he likes to play with children's clothes to make his genre scenes shimmer.

The artist is undoubtedly the 19th century French painter who treated the theme of childhood with the most emotion and delicacy.

Exhibition at the Salon of French Artists from 1843 to 1866 Paris
Retrospective of his work in 1926 in Le Havre
Museums in Marseille, Paris, Reims…

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