Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (;

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2 April 1804 – 24 March 1865 Paris) was a French painter and sculptor.

Life and career

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay was born in

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on 2 April 1804. His father, '' Joseph Jan Baptiste de Bay'', 1829, was an eminent sculptor who worked in Paris and locally in Nantes. Debay learned sculpting from his father at an early age, but started his career as a historical painter. On August 28, 1817, he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited his first portraits to The Salon at the age of thirteen. After studying under

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, he obtained the ''

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'' in 1823. Soon after this he gave up painting for sculpture, which he studied under his father, and in which he was successful. Some of his historical paintings are displayed at the

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Gallery

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(1793-1848), archbishop of Paris Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, The Nation Is in Danger, 1832.jpg, The Nation Is in Danger, or the Enrollment of Volunteers at the Place du Palais-Royal in July 1792 (fragment) Debay Prix de Rome.JPG,

1823 Debay - Augustin Dumont.jpg, '' Augustin-Alexandre Dumont'', 1829 Madame Félix Crucy.jpg, ''Madame Félix Crucy'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Terreur Nantes.jpg, ''Executions of the sisters'', 1793

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1804 births 1865 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French architectural sculptors Artists from Nantes Prix de Rome for painting Pupils of Antoine-Jean Gros 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub