Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval

Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval (16 April 1808 – 25 December 1885), better known by the pseudonym Amaury-Duval, was a French painter. He was one of two sons of Amaury Duval (1760–1838) and thus a nephew of the playwright Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval.

Life

He was born in

Appraisal

In general, Mr FLANDRIN, Mr AMAURY-DUVAL and Mr LEHMAN, have an excellent quality, and their modelling is true and fine. Their taste is well-conceived, facilely executed and all of a breath; but their portraits are often tainted by a pretentious and maladroit affectedness. Their immoderate taste for distinction puts them to bad turns at every instant. It is known with what admirable bonhomie they researched their distinguished tones, that is to say the tones which (even if they are intense) scream like the devil and holy water, like marble and vinegar; but when they are excessively pale and take a homeopathic dose, the effect is more surprising than sad: there is their grand triumph!

Works

76 paintings and drawings by Duval are known, including the following:

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  The Birth of Venus, 1862, oil on canvas, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
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  Annunciation
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  Madame de Loynes (Jeanne Détourbay), 1862, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay
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  Ancient bather
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  Saint Filomena
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  Woman from St. Jean de Luz
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  The bather, destroyed during World War II
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  Study of a child, destroyed 1940

Sources

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• Dictionnaire de biographie française

References