Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval (16 April 1808 – 25 December 1885), better known by the pseudonym Amaury-Duval, was a French painter. He was one of two sons of

Amaury Duval (1760–1838) Charles-Alexandre-Amaury Pineux, known as Amaury Duval (28 January 1760 in Rennes – 12 November 1838 in Paris) was a French lawyer, historian, diplomat, writer and scholar. His brother was the playwright Alexandre Duval and one of his two sons ...

and thus a nephew of the playwright Alexandre Pineux Duval.

Life

He was born in

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. One of the first students in Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's studio (a strong influence on all Duval's works), Duval took part in the 1829 artists' and scholars' expedition sent by Charles X of France to Greece as the

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to produce its archaeological drawings. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1833 with many portraits such as his ''Green Lady'' (no longer extant) and his ''Self-portrait'' (still to be seen in the musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes). In 1834 he exhibited his "Greek shepherd discovering an antique bas-relief". From 1834 to 1836 he took a long

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, Rome, and

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, where he discovered Italian Renaissance art. On returning to France he was one of the artists commissioned to decorate churches by the government of Louis-Philippe then

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– the Sainte Philomène chapel at the église Saint-Merry (1840–1844), the chapel of the virgin at

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in Paris (1844–1846) then the parish church of

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(1849–1856). He also published his memoirs. He died in Paris on

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, 1885.

Appraisal

Baudelaire fiercely criticised the Duval and Ingres school:

Works

76 paintings and drawings by Duval are known, including the following: Duval La Naissance de Venus.jpg, ''The Birth of Venus'', 1862, oil on canvas, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille Amaury Duval Annunciazione.jpg, ''Annunciation'' 75 - Musée d'Orsay - Madame de Loynes 1862 - Amaury-Duval - Joconde000PE000014.jpg, ''Madame de Loynes (Jeanne Détourbay)'', 1862, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay Amaury-Duval Baigneuse antique.jpg, ''Ancient bather'' Sainte-philomene-amaury-duval.jpg, ''Saint Filomena'' Amaury-Duval Femme.jpg, ''Woman from St. Jean de Luz'' Amaury-Duval Baigneuse.jpg, ''The bather'', destroyed during

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Amaury Duval etude d'enfant.jpg, ''Study of a child'', destroyed 1940

Sources

*Dictionnaire de biographie française

References

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