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Achille Deveria BIOGRAPHY
1800 - 1857. Known for: Illustration and lithography.
Achille Devéria was a French artist born in Paris in 1800. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Louis Lafitte. Devéria began exhibiting at the Salon in 1822 but did not find success as a painter.... Read full biography
Achille Devéria was a French artist born in Paris in 1800. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Louis Lafitte. Devéria began exhibiting at the Salon in 1822 but did not find success as a painter. However, he excelled in the art of illustration and lithography. His work demonstrated a free and... Read full biography
Achille Devéria was a French artist born in Paris in 1800. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Louis Lafitte. Devéria began exhibiting at the Salon in 1822 but did not find success as a painter. However, he excelled in the art of illustration and lithography. His work demonstrated a free and enlightened spirit, with an irreverent tone reflected in his liberal and anticlerical works. Devéria illustrated the works of literary geniuses such as Molière, Rablelais, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and... Read full biography
Achille Devéria was a French artist born in Paris in 1800. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Louis Lafitte. Devéria began exhibiting at the Salon in 1822 but did not find success as a painter. However, he excelled in the art of illustration and lithography. His work demonstrated a free and enlightened spirit, with an irreverent tone reflected in his liberal and anticlerical works. Devéria illustrated the works of literary geniuses such as Molière, Rablelais, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and was associated with the romantic milieu. He portrayed some of its representatives such as Musset or Liszt. Olivia Voisin confirmed the attribution of a charming interior scene drawing to Achille Devéria, which will be included in the catalog raisonné... Read full biography
Achille Devéria was a French artist born in Paris in 1800. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Louis Lafitte. Devéria began exhibiting at the Salon in 1822 but did not find success as a painter. However, he excelled in the art of illustration and lithography. His work demonstrated a free and enlightened spirit, with an irreverent tone reflected in his liberal and anticlerical works. Devéria illustrated the works of literary geniuses such as Molière, Rablelais, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and was associated with the romantic milieu. He portrayed some of its representatives such as Musset or Liszt. Olivia Voisin confirmed the attribution of a charming interior scene drawing to Achille Devéria, which will be included in the catalog raisonné that she is preparing on Achille and Eugène Devéria.
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Achille Devéria was a French artist born in Paris in 1800. He was a pupil of Anne-Louis Girodet and Louis Lafitte. Devéria began exhibiting at the Salon in 1822 but did not find success as a painter. However, he excelled in the art of illustration and lithography. His work demonstrated a free and enlightened spirit, with an irreverent tone reflected in his liberal and anticlerical works. Devéria illustrated the works of literary geniuses such as Molière, Rablelais, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and was associated with the romantic milieu. He portrayed some of its representatives such as Musset or Liszt. Olivia Voisin confirmed the attribution of a charming interior scene drawing to Achille Devéria, which will be included in the catalog raisonné that she is preparing on Achille and Eugène Devéria.