Andre Devambez - Artist Info

About Andre Devambez

  • Biography

    A painter and illustrator of considerable talent, André Devambez was the son of the graveur-éditeur Édouard Devambez, and as a child was already displaying his imaginative abilities as an artist, making drawings of historical battle scenes and illustrating his own stories and plays.

    He studied at the Académie Julian* in Paris from 1885, while also working as an assistant to his father. In 1889 Devambez began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français*, and the following year won the Prix de Rome* with a painting of The Denial of Saint Peter, today in the collection of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

    He spent three years as a pensionnaire at the French Academy at the Villa Medici in Rome, bet...

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