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Louis-Théodore Devilly (28 October 1818,
Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand Es ...
24 December 1886, Nancy) was a French painter who specialized in military and Orientalist scenes; associated with the .


Biography

He came from a family of booksellers.André Bellard :"Laurent-Charles Maréchal, l'École de Metz", in ''Les cahiers lorrains'', S.H.A.L., Metz, 1959. His father, Louis-Jean-Baptiste (1792-1826), was a member of the and a prominent Mason. Following his father's death, his mother, Félicité Constance Gentil, took over the bookshop, but he was more attracted to drawing and sketching.Émile Auguste Nicolas Jules Bégin: ''Biographie de la Moselle'', reprinted by the University of Michigan, 2009 From 1833 to 1835, he attended classes taught by Laurent-Charles Maréchal, the founder of the École de Metz. He then went to Paris, where he became a student of Paul Delaroche at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. In addition to oil painting, he practiced engraving and worked with watercolors. In 1840, he exhibited at the Salon.Société des artistes français. ''Salon : Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivants'', Paris, 1885. He returned to Metz in 1841, but continued to exhibit in Paris; winning a silver medal at the Salon of 1852. He became especially well known for his huge canvases of historical scenes; mostly battles. In 1864, he was named Director of the Following the Franco-Prussian War, he remained loyal to France and moved away from Metz, which had become part of the
German Empire The German Empire (), Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditar ...
. He settled in Nancy and took over management of the , a post he held until his death in 1886.


References


Further reading

* Marguerite Sido, "Théodore Devilly (1818-1886), de Metz à Nancy. Biographie. Essai de catalogue raisonné ";
Nancy 2 University Nancy 2 University (''Université Nancy 2'') was a French university located in Nancy, France. It was a member of the Nancy-Université federation, a group of the three higher education institutions in Nancy.
, 2000, 356 p. * Pierre Brasme, ''La Moselle et ses artistes'', Éd. Serpenoise, Metz, 2002, pp. 61–63 * Henri Claude, ''La Lorraine vue par les peintres'', Serge Domini, Thionville, 2003, pp. 47–48, 106, 116


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