Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña

Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, self-portrait

Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña , (born August 20, 1807 in Bordeaux , † November 18, 1876 in Menton ) was a French painter .

Diaz de la Peña's parents were Spanish , whom he lost when he was ten years old. He was then educated by a Protestant clergyman in Bellevue near Paris . When he lost a leg as a result of a snakebite , he trained himself to be a painter, but first had to earn his living as a porcelain painter . Under the influence of Eugène Delacroix , he joined the romantic movement and studied Antonio da Correggio in addition . He first exhibited landscape studies in the Paris Salon based on motifs from the area around Paris and the Fontainebleau forest and later also placed the main emphasis on landscape painting , whose pictures he adorned with nymphs , cupids and gypsies .

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SURNAME	Díaz de la Peña, Narcisso Virgilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH	November 18, 1876
Place of death	Menton