Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval (16 April 1808 – 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-Vincent Pineux Duval.

Life

He was born in Montrouge. One of the first students in

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's studio (a strong influence on all Duval's works), Duval took part in the 1829 artists' and scholars' expedition sent by

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to Greece as the Morea Expedition to produce its archaeological drawings. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 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). In 1834 he exhibited his "Greek shepherd discovering an antique bas-relief". From 1834 to 1836 he took a long Grand Tour to

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, Rome, and

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, 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

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– the Sainte Philomène chapel at the église Saint-Merry (1840–1844), the chapel of the virgin at Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris (1844–1846) then the parish church of

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(1849–1856). He also published his memoirs. He died in Paris on

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, 1885.

Appraisal

Baudelaire fiercely criticised the Duval and Ingres school:

Works

76 paintings and drawings by Duval are known, including the following: Duval La Naissance de Venus.jpg, ''The Birth of Venus'', 1862, oil on canvas, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille Amaury Duval Annunciazione.jpg, ''Annunciation'' 75 - Musée d'Orsay - Madame de Loynes 1862 - Amaury-Duval - Joconde000PE000014.jpg, ''Madame de Loynes (Jeanne Détourbay)'', 1862, oil on canvas,

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Amaury-Duval Baigneuse antique.jpg, ''Ancient bather'' Sainte-philomene-amaury-duval.jpg, ''Saint Filomena'' Amaury-Duval Femme.jpg, ''Woman from St. Jean de Luz'' Amaury-Duval Baigneuse.jpg, ''The bather'', destroyed during

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Amaury Duval etude d'enfant.jpg, ''Study of a child'', destroyed 1940

Sources

*Dictionnaire de biographie française

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duval 1808 births 1885 deaths People from Montrouge 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists