Artist

(b. 1800, Paris, d. 1857, Paris)

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French painter and lithographer. 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 painter. By 1830 Devéria had become a successful illustrator and had published a many lithographs in 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. 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, père, Prosper Mérimée, Sir Walter Scott, David, Alfred de Musset, Sainte-Beuve, Honoré de Balzac, Géricault, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny and Franz Liszt. His paintings were mainly done using watercolours. In 1849 he was appointed director of the Bibliothèque Nationale's department of engravings. Achille taught drawing and lithography to his son, Théodule Devéria, and father and son collaborated on a family portrait album from 1853 until Achille's 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 are dated 1854. //

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Category	Artists
Artists by letter	D
Artist nationality	French