Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval
Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux , called Amaury-Duval (born April 16, 1808 in Montrouge near Paris, † December 25, 1885 in Paris ) was a French academic painter.
Life
His father was the diplomat, historian and archaeologist Charles Alexandre Amaury Pineux, called Amaury Duval (1760-1838), whose brother - his uncle - was the French playwright Alexandre Duval (1767-1842). From 1825 he was a student of the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres . Amaury-Duval was able to take part as a draftsman in the Expédition de Morée during the time of the Greek Revolution and sketched in the Peloponnese . A grand tour took him to Italy from 1834-36, particularly to Florence, Rome and Naples, where he studied the art of the Renaissance . In Rome he met again with his teacher Ingres, who was director of the Académie de France in Rome for a term from 1835 to 1841 . He made his debut in 1833 with a few portraits in the Paris Salon . In the following years he regularly exhibited portraits and historical pictures. He was best known for the birth of Venus in 1863 , when two more pictures on the same subject (by Alexandre Cabanel and Paul Baudry ) were selected by the jury. Amaury-Duval painted many religious pictures and portraits, he worked for some churches in Paris. Among his historical paintings, the most important were the frescoes in the Chapel of St. Philomene at Saint-Merry (1840–1844), in the Lady Chapel of St-Germain-l'Auxerrois (1844–1846) and the paintings in the 1849–1856 Church of St. Germain at Saint-Germain-en-Laye north-west of Paris. The paintings in Linières Castle (Vendée) were destroyed along with the entire building in 1912. In 1845 he became a knight and in 1865 an officer of the Legion of Honor .
His pictures are exhibited today in Paris (in the Musée d'Orsay , Musée Carnavalet and the Louvre), in the Palace of Versailles, in Compiègnes, in Montauban, Rennes, Rouen, Lille, Dijon and Autun.
Works (selection)
- Various portraits, e.g. B. his father and his uncle Alexandre Duval, the actor Jean-Marie Geoffroy and (1855) the actress Rachel as the muse of tragedy
- The sleeping baby Jesus (1857)
- Head of a Young Girl (1859)
- Young girl with the doll (1864)
- Daphnis and Chloe (1865)
Fonts
- L'Atelier d'Ingres - souvenirs. G. Charpentier Paris 1878, 297 pp.
- Souvenirs E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, Paris, 1885. 256 pp.
literature
- Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographical Artist Lexicon. Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882
- Claude Keisch et al. a. (Ed.): From Courbet to Cézanne - French painting 1848–1886 . Exhibition catalog. Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1982, pp. 78–79
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amaury-Duval, Eugène Emmanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pineux, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury; Amaury-Duval |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French academic painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montrouge near Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1885 |
| Place of death | Paris |