Madame de Loynes

The Birth of Venus, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval (Montrouge, 16 April 1808 - Paris, 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) and thus a nephew of the playwright Alexandre Pineux Duval.

[edit] Life

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 Morea Expedition 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^[1]). In 1834 he exhibited his "Greek shepherd discovering an antique bas-relief". From 1834 to 1836 he took a long Grand Tour to Florence, Rome then Naples, 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 Napoleon III - the Sainte Philomène chapel at the église Saint-Merry (1840-1844), the chapel of the virgin at Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, at Paris (1844-1846) then the parish church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1849-1856). He also published his memoirs.

Baudelaire fiercely criticised the Duval and Ingres school:

[edit] Works

76 paintings and drawings by Duval are known, including

• Madame de Loynes
• Annunciation
• 1862, The Birth of Venus, oil on canvas, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
• 1862, Madame de Loynes (Jeanne Détourbay), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

[edit] Sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Amaury Duval

• Dictionnaire de biographie française

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.mbar.org/