Eugène Devéria, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French Romantic painter of history paintings
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Eugène Devéria
- Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, Paris – 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings.
- He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time.
- His elder brother was the painter and lithographer Achille Devéria. He was a student of Girodet-Trioson and Guillaume Guillon Lethière and of his own brother, Achille Devéria.
- He exhibited for the first time at the salon of 1824 and saw success with La Naissance de Henri IV in 1827.
- With Eugène Delacroix and Louis Boulanger, he was one of the main proponents of the French Romantic movement in painting. Eugène Devéria had as one of his students Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize.
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Source: L'Artiste, août 1869,
License: CC-PD-Mark
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Paul Lafond
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| Alternative names | Paul-Jean-Marie Lafond; Jean Marie Paul Lafond; Paul Jean-Marie Lafond | ||
| Description | French drawer, engraver, art historian and art collector | ||
| Date of birth/death | 1 July 1847 | 21 September 1918 | |
| Location of birth/death | Rouen | Pau | |
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Source: L'Artiste, août 1869,
Bibliothèque nationale de France
License: CC-PD-Mark
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