Eugène Devéria

Eugène Devéria ( born April 22, 1805 in Paris, † February 3, 1865 in Pau) was a French painter and the brother of Achille Devéria.

Life

Eugène Devéria studied under Girodet and first came out in the Paris Salon of 1827 with his painting " The Birth of Henri IV ". He joined the Romantic school and won, after he had become known by several genre and religious pictures, the painting by Henry IV's birth ( in the Louvre) a great triumph, which remained his only. They found it a great talent for composition, his individualized heads, hardworking design and vivid color, and looked Devéria since then as one of the leaders of the Romantics.

In 1830 belonged to Devéria and his brother, the painter and lithographer Achille Devéria, the poet circle Le Cénacle to Victor Hugo. From the collection of poems from the East to Devéria was later also inspired by Lord Byron's works as.

In 1836 he retired to Pau and became a Protestant pastor, but soon turned back to art and painted now, among other things:

• The battle at the Tyrolia ( in the Versailles Museum )
• The unveiling of the statue of Henry IV to Pau ( 184.6 ),
• The death of Joan Seymour (1847 ),
• The four Henrys ( 1857),
• Maintenance of Spanish merchants (1859 ),
• Reception of Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella ( 1861).

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• French Painter
• Frenchman
• Born in 1805
• Died in 1865
• Man