Adolphe Déchenaud

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Adolphe Déchenaud (actually Adolphe Deschenaux, born June 19, 1868 in Saint-Ambreuil , † December 27, 1926 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French painter

From 1879 to 1882 Déchenaud was based in the Daix Borgne Institution in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Déchenaud studied from 1883 at the Académie Julian with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre , Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant .

Since 1885 he was allowed to take part in the competitions of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . After a year-long hiatus in 1886, when he volunteered with the 13th Nevers Infantry Regiment , he continued his training at the Académie Julian.

In 1894 he won the Prix ​​de Rome and lived in the Villa Medici in Rome until 1898 . There he made friends with various artists, such as the painter André Devambez , the sculptor François Sicard and the architect Emmanuel Pontremoli , whose portraits he painted. When Déchenaud returned to Paris in 1898, he received an honorable mention in the 1899 Salon.

He taught at the Académie Julian. On July 7, 1910, he married his student Marie Louise Rosine Garcin in Paris.

On the occasion of the 1913 Salon, he received a medal of honor with the painting “Dans l'Atelier”.

Déchenaud was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1908. He was a member of the jury of the Société des Artistes Français . Déchenaud, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1918. He died in his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Déchenaud moved into his second house in 1904 in the village of Nanton (Saône-et-Loire) . His tomb is there.

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SURNAME Déchenaud, Adolphe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deschenaux, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Ambreuil
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1926
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine