Adolphe Déchenaud (28 June 1868, Saint-Ambreuil – 27 December 1926,

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Biography

He was the son of a Parisian restaurateur, born while his mother was visiting her parents. She remained there for two years before bringing him back to Paris. At the age of fifteen, having noticed his artistic talent, his father enrolled him at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

, where he studied with

Jules Joseph Lefebvre Jules Joseph Lefebvre (; 14 March 183624 February 1911) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Early life Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Bea ...

Gustave Boulanger Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – 22 September 1888) was a French figurative painter and academic artist and teacher known for his Classical and Orientalist subjects. Education and career The Néo-Grecs and the Prix de Rom ...

and

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.Brief biography
@ the Commune de Saint-Ambreuil website. (Note: The portrait is ''not'' Déchenaud.) In 1885, he competed for entry to the

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, but was obliged to perform military service in 1886. After a year with the 13th Infantry Regiment in

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, he returned to the Académie. He achieved second-place in the

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competition in 1891 for his depiction of

Philemon and Baucis In Ovid's moralizing fables collected as ''Metamorphoses'' is his telling of the story of Baucis and Philemon, which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology. Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region ...

. Three years later, he shared the Grand Prize with

Auguste Leroux Jules Marie Auguste Leroux (14 April 1871 – 26 March 1954) was a French painter and illustrator. Biography Jules Marie Auguste Leroux was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris on 14 April 1871, during the Commune. His father, Gustav Ferdi ...

for his version of

Judith beheading Holofernes The account of the beheading of Holofernes by Judith is given in the deuterocanonical ''Book of Judith'', and is the subject of many paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In the story, Judith, a beautiful widow, is ab ...

. That same year, he went to the

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and remained there until 1898. During this time, he painted the portraits of several of his fellow residents who would later become well-known, including

André Devambez André Victor Édouard Devambez (26 May 1867 – 18 March 1944) was a French painter and illustrator. best-known his whimsical illustrations of children's books and his dramatic paintings of Paris scenes and of early airplanes from a viewpoint hig ...

François-Léon Sicard François-Léon Sicard (April 21, 1862 – July 8, 1934) was a French sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th century. His credits include work on the adornments of the Louvre, and numerous sculptures around the world. Sicard was born in Tours, ...

and

Emmanuel Pontremoli Emmanuel Pontremoli (13 January 1865 – 25 July 1956) was a French architect and archaeologist. Biography Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architectur ...

. His first exhibition at the

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was in 1899. He only received an honorable mention, but this was followed by medals in 1900 and 1901. At the Salon of 1913, he received the Medal of Honor. He also became a teacher at the Académie. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, he produced one of his most familiar paintings; '' Le comité des forges'' (the Foundry Committee), a tableau of the twenty-five most powerful French industrialists. After the war, he was elected a to succeed

Raphaël Collin Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin (17 June 1850 – 21 October 1916) was a French painter born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and a teacher. He is principally known for the links he created between French and Japa ...

in Seat#11 at the

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. Upon his death, he was succeeded by

Lucien Simon Lucien Joseph Simon (1861 – 1945) was a French painter and teacher born in Paris. Early life and education Simon was born in Paris. After graduating from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he studied painting at the studio of Jules Didier, then from ...

. He is interred in a mausoleum in Nanton, which he had made his second home.

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Works by Déchenaud
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dechenaud, Adolphe 1868 births 1926 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists Portrait painters Académie Julian alumni Academic staff of the Académie Julian École des Beaux-Arts alumni Prix de Rome for painting People from Saône-et-Loire 19th-century French male artists

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