Excerpt from A Christian Painter of the Nineteenth Century: Being the Life of Hippolyte Flandrin

Tion as one of its noblest objects, and who desire to see the walls of our churches an abiding lesson to the eye of the faithful, are acquainted with the name of Hippolyte Flandrin, and more or less with his works. But among the numbers who have admired and studied his paintings in Saint Germain des Prés, Saint S'everin, or Saint Vincent de Paul, at Paris, the Church of Saint Paul at Nimes, or that of Ainay at Lyons, few probably know anything concerning the painter, or the mind which prompted that skilful hand to trace the devout imaginations which have won for Flandrin the name of the Fra Angelico of our day.

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