Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval

Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux called, Amaury - Duval (* 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 ). He was from 1825 student of the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Amaury - Duval 1829 could participate as a draftsman at the Expédition de Morée in the time of the Greek Revolution and outlined in the Peloponnese. A Grand Tour 1834-36 led him to Italy, especially to Florence, Rome and Naples, where he studied the art of the Renaissance. In Rome he met again with his teacher Ingres together, which until 1841 was 1835 for a term director of the Académie de France in Rome. He debuted in 1833 with some portraits in the Paris Salon. In the following years he exhibited regularly portraits and historical images. He became known in 1863 were primarily selected by the Birth of Venus, as with his picture two more pictures of the same subject ( by Alexandre Cabanel and Paul Baudry ) by the jury. Amaury - Duval painted many religious pictures and portraits, he worked for several churches in Paris. Among his historical pictures, the most important frescoes in the chapel of St. Philomene were Saint -Merry (1840-1844), in the Lady Chapel of St- Germain l'Auxerrois (1844-1846) and paintings from 1849 to 1856 carried out in the Church of St. Germain to Saint- Germain -en- Laye northwest of Paris. The decorative paintings in Linières (Vendée ) Castle in 1912 destroyed the entire building. In 1845 he was knight and 1865 Officer of the Legion of Honour.

His paintings are now in Paris ( Musée d' Orsay, Musée Carnavalet and the Louvre), the Palace of Versailles, in Compiègnes issued in Montauban, Rennes, Rouen, Lille, Dijon and Autun.

Works (selection)

• Various portraits, for example, his father and his uncle Alexandre Duval, the actor Jean -Marie Geoffroy and ( 1855), the actress Rachel as a muse of tragedy
• The Sleeping Christ Child ( 1857)
• Head of a Young Girl ( 1859)
• Young girl with the doll (1864 )
• Daphnis and Chloe (1865 )

Writings

• L' Atelier d' Ingres - Souvenirs. G. Charpentier Paris 1878, 297 pp.
• Souvenirs E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, Paris, 1885. 256 S.