Henry Caro-Delvaille

Henry Caro-Delvaille

The white peacock

Henry Caro-Delvaille (born July 6, 1876 in Bayonne , † July 6, 1928 in Sceaux ) was a French genre and portrait painter.

Life

Henry Caro-Delvaille studied from 1895 to 1897 at the Art School in Bayonne and continued his studies at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Léon Bonnat . In 1899 he exhibited for the first time at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français . In 1901 he won a third class medal for his painting entitled “The Manicure”. From 1903 he was a member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and became its secretary in 1904. In 1905 he won the large gold medal at the International Exhibition in Munich . That same year, his friend Edmond Rostand commissioned him to decorate his villa in Cambo-les-Bains. He then became known as a portraitist and enjoyed many commissions. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1910 . In 1917 he traveled to the United States , where he settled until 1925. He made many portraits, nudes, landscapes and decorative paintings there.

He was buried in the Bayonne Jewish cemetery.

literature

• Otto Grautoff : Caro-Delvaille, Henry . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 24 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Emmanuel Bénézit (founder): Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs . 3rd edition, Gründ, Paris 1976, Volume 2, p. 536.
• Emmanuel Bénézit (founder): Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. 4th edition, Gründ, Paris 1999, volume 3, p. 260.
• Christine Gouzi: Henry Caro-Delvaille, peintre de la Belle Epoque, de Paris à New York. Editions Faton, Paris 2016, ISBN 2-87844-216-4 .

Web links

Commons : Henry Caro-Delvaille  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Henry Caro-Delvaille. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)