Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay.
Victorious Christ, pediment of the Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church in Paris

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (French pronunciation: [oɡystjasɛ̃tdəbɛ]; Nantes 2 April 1804 – 24 March 1865 Paris) was a French painter and sculptor.

Life and career

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay was born in Nantes, France on 2 April 1804. His father, Joseph Jan Baptiste de Bay, 1829, was an eminent sculptor who worked in Paris and locally in Nantes. Debay learned sculpting from his father at an early age, but started his career as a historical painter. On August 28, 1817, he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited his first portraits to The Salon at the age of thirteen. After studying under Gros, he obtained the Prix de Rome in 1823. Soon after this he gave up painting for sculpture, which he studied under his father, and in which he was successful. Some of his historical paintings are displayed at the Versailles.

Gallery

  • Denis Auguste Affre (1793-1848), archbishop of Paris
  • The Nation Is in Danger, or the Enrollment of Volunteers at the Place du Palais-Royal in July 1792 (fragment)
  • Prix de Rome 1823
  • Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, 1829
  • Madame Félix Crucy, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
  • Executions of the sisters, 1793

Attribution:

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). . In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

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