Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856), born Hippolyte, was a French painter. He was trained by Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, a painter of life-size historical subjects who had many students.

He was born, worked, and died in Paris. His studio was in the rue Mazarin. His subjects were painted with a firm, solid, smooth surface, which gave an appearance of the highest finish. This texture was the manner of the day and was also found in the works of Vernet, Ary Scheffer, Louis Léopold Robert and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Among his students were British landscape artist Henry Mark Anthony, British history painters Edward Armitage and Charles Lucy, and American painter/photographer Alfred Boisseau (1823–1901).

The first Delaroche picture exhibited was the large Jehosheba saving Joash (1822). This exhibition led to his acquaintance with Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, with whom he formed the core of a large group of Parisian historical painters. He visited Italy in 1838 and 1843, when his father-in-law, Horace Vernet, was director of the French Academy in Rome. In 1845, he was elected into the National Academy of Design, New York, as an Honorary Academician.

The Death of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1828, Louvre

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, National Gallery, London

Peter the Great, 1838

Napoléon abdiquant à Fontainebleau ("Napoleon abdicating in Fontainebleau"), 1845, The Royal Collection, London

Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, 1850, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Joan of Arc being Interrogated, 1824, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France.

Central section of the Hémicycle, 1841–1842

Le duc d’Angoulême dans la Bataille de Trocadéro por Paul Delaroche.

Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret

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Cardinal Mazarin dying

Henriette Sontag (1806-1854),

L’assassinat du duc de Guise au château de Blois en 1588

L'infanzia di Pico della Mirandola

Delfina Potocka jako Madonna

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