Eugène Devéria
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Paris
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- 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
painter of history painting
History painting
History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...
s. He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time.
He was a student of Girodet-Trioson and Guillaume Guillon Lethière and of his own brother, Achille Devéria
Achille Devéria
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria was a French painter and lithographer. His father was a civil employee of the navy and student of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte ....
. He exhibited for the first time at the salon
Paris Salon
The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world...
of 1824 and saw success with La Naissance de Henri IV
Henry IV of France
Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....
in 1827. With Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...
and Louis Boulanger
Louis Boulanger
Louis Boulanger was a French Romantic painter, lithographer and illustrator.-Life:He enrolled in 1821 at the École des beaux-arts where he attended the workshop of Guillaume Guillon Lethière and received a solid classical training. Next he made a présentation for the prix de Rome, in 1824, in...
, 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
Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize
Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize was a French Romantic painter of history paintings and genre paintings.- Career :He studied under the painters Achille Devéria and Eugène Devéria and taught Paul-Maurice Duthoit and his son Pierre-Paul-Léon Glaize....
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