Engene Napoleon Flandin, a French painter and archaeologist, born in Naples, Aug. 15,1809. His father was chief of the military commissariat under Murat, and settled in Paris after the downfall of Napoleon. Young Flandin studied drawing and painting without a master, visited Italy in 1834, and exhibited in 1836 Venice" and"theBridge of Sighs." In 1838, after a brief sojourn in Algeria, he painted the Storming of Constantine," which became the property of Louis Philippe. In 1839 Flandin was chosen by the academy of fine arts to accompany to Persia the French ambassador De Sercey; and on his return in 1842 his report and drawings were adopted by the academies and published by the government. He was at once chosen by the academy of inscriptions and belles-lettres to go to Nineveh with P. E. Botta to continue explorations there, and to sketch the monuments. He returned in 1845, and the chambers unanimously voted to publish the result of their labors, which appeared in the Monuments de Ninive and atlas (1849-'50). In 1846, while preparing this work, ho published articles relating to Assyria in the Rerue des Deux Mondes. In 1854 he began the publication of another splendid work descriptive of the countries between Nineveh and the gulf of Persia. He has since exhibited many paintings on Italian and eastern subjects.

He now lives in retirement at Tours. His works are: Voyage en Perse (2 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1851); atlas to the same (6 vols, fob, 260 plates in line engraving, and 100 lithographed plates, with descriptive texts, 1843-'54); V Orient, to be published in 40 parts of 5 plates each (parts 1 to 31, fob, 1853-'67); and Histoire des chevaliers de Rhodes (large 8vo, Tours, 1864).