Achille Devéria Art
French, 1800-1857
Achille Devéria was a French painter and lithographer, he is known also for his portraits of famous writers and artists. He became a student of of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte. In 1822, he began exhibiting at the Paris Salon. At some point, he opened an art school together with his brother Eugène, who was also a famous artist. By 1830 Devéria had become a successful illustrator and had published many lithographs in the form of notebooks and albums (e.g., his illustrations to Goethe's Faust, 1828) and romantic novels. He also produced many engravings of libertine contents.
His paintings were mainly done using watercolours. The French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire referred to his portrait series as showing "all the morals and aesthetics of the age".
Devéria was also known for doing portraits of artists and writers, whom he entertained in his Paris studio on Rue de l'Ouest. The list of his sitters includes Alexandre Dumas, Prosper Mérimée, Sir Walter Scott, Jacques-Louis David, Alfred de Musset, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Honoré de Balzac, Théodore Géricault, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Jane Stirling, and Franz Liszt.
In 1849 Devéria was appointed director of the Bibliothèque Nationale's department of engravings and assistant curator of the Louvre's Egyptian department. In the following years, he taught drawing and lithography to his son, Théodule Devéria, and both worked on a family portrait album from 1853 until his death. They applied ink wash to several of the portraits in the album, possibly in preparation for printing lithographs from the photographs. The album photographs by Théodule Devéria are dated 1854.
Devéria spent his last days traveling in Egypt, making drawings and transcribing texts. He died in 1857.
Works by Devéria are in the Louvre Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Université de Liège collections.(Biography provided by Fremiot)
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Artist: Achille Devéria
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A young woman seen in profile, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A young woman seen in profile
Black Chalk on paper
with cut edges
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The Rest - Original Lithograph by Achille Deveria - Early 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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Innocem V - Original Pencil by Achille Deveria - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Innocem V is an original artwork realized by Achille Deveria (1800-1857) .
Original pencil drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good.
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Achille Devéria (1800-1857) Allez au diable, la fille est à moi Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
"Allez au diable, la femme est à moi" (Go to hell, This woman is mine)
pencil on paper
annotated on the upper border "Alle...
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Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A galant scene Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
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A galant scene
pencil on paper
Some stains (see photographs please)
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale o...
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Sitting Children - Pencil and Watercolor Drawing by A. Devéria -Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sitting Children is a pencil and watercolor drawing realized by Achille Deveria (1800-1857) in the 19th Century.
The artwork represents two sitting c...
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French Neoclassic mythological figurative drawing early 18th century
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The iconography and the inscription at the centre help us recognising the episode in the one of Heracles and the Cercopes, that worth him the appellation of μελάμπυγος (melampygos me...
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