Adrien Louis Demont (25 October 1851,

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- 25 October 1928,

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) was a French landscape painter; associated with the artists' colony at Wissant.

Biography

At first, he studied law, but decided to devote himself to painting. His first lessons were in his hometown. Later, he collaborated with

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. In 1871, he met Jean-Baptiste Corot during his visit to Douai and, shortly after, went to Paris, where he found a position in the workshops of

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. In 1880, he married the daughter of the painter,

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, who would herself become a well-known painter under the name Virginie Demont-Breton. Originally, the couple settled in

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but, the following year, they discovered the village of Wissant on the

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. That is where they chose to settle and, in 1891, built a villa in the

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style that they named the "Typhonium". They soon attracted a circle of students that included

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, Fernand Stiévenart,

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and . They met together frequently until the beginning of

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. In 1905, Demont was elected a member of "Rosati", a

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located in

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. The following year, he was named a Knight in the

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.Documentation
@ the Base Léonore. The year before his death, he published a book of memoirs called ''Souvenances. Promenades à travers ma vie'', describing everyday life and the artistic milieu in Northern France. His works are preserved at small museums throughout the region, as well as at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

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