Adolphe Déchenaud (28 June 1868,

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– 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 , where he studied with

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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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@ 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. Three years later, he shared the Grand Prize with

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for his version of

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. 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,

François-Léon Sicard François-Léon Sicard (21 April 1862 – 8 July 1934) was a French sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th century. His credits include work on the adornments of the Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum ...

and

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. 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

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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 French 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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