EUGÈNE - MARIE - FRANÇOIS DEVÉRIA
Paris 1808 - Pau 1865
The Devéria brothers, Achille and Eugène, were very well known in Paris of the 1820s and ‘30s, not only for their work as artists but also for their involvement in progressive Romantic circles. Achille, who worked most memorably in the medium of lithography, specialized in genre subjects and portraiture, while Eugène was the more serious history painter. He was a student of Girodet and made a sensational Salon debut in 1827 with his Birth of Henri IV, which, as far as his critics were concerned, he was never able to live up to
