Narcisse Virgilio DÃaz
Narcisso Virgilio Diaz de la Peña ( born August 20, 1807 in Bordeaux, † November 18, 1876 in Menton ) was a French painter.
Diaz de la Peña parents were Spaniards, who, when he was ten years old, lost. Then he was brought up in Bellevue near Paris of a Protestant clergyman. As a result of a snake bite he lost a leg, he continued his own power to the painter, but first had to earn as a porcelain painter of his maintenance. Under the influence of Eugène Delacroix, he joined the Romantic movement, and especially Antonio da Correggio studied next. He placed first in the Paris Salon of landscape studies based on motifs from the surrounding area of Paris and the forest of Fontainebleau and later put the emphasis on landscape painting whose images he adorned with nymphs, cupids and Gypsies.