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- Achille Devéria
- Also known as
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Achille Devéria
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primary name: Devéria, Achille
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other name: Devéria, Jacques Jean Marie Achille
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; French; Male
- Life dates
- 1800-1857
- Biography
- Painter, lithographer and stained-glass designer. Brother of Eugène, son-in-law of the publisher Charles-Etienne Motte. Pupil of Louis Lafitte and specialised in illustration (e.g. Perrault's 'Contes' and La Fontaine's 'Contes'). His lithographic production is copious (about 3000 lithographs). Shortly after 1848 he became assistant curator of the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and a few months before his death chief curator. In 1857, the Cabinet des Estampes acquired his collection of 113.000 lithographs, engravings and drawings, which is now dispersed through the collection.
- Bibliography
- M. Gauthier, 'Achille et Eugène Devéria', Paris, 1925
'Achille Devéria, témoin du romantisme Parisien 1800-1857', exh.cat., Musée Renan-Scheffer, Paris, 1985
Beatrice Farwell, 'The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature 1816-1848', exh.cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, 1989
