Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay

French painter and sculptor

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (French pronunciation: [oɡyst jasɛ̃t dəbɛ]; 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.^[1] Debay learned sculpting from his father at an early age, but started his career as a historical painter.^[2] 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.^[2] After studying under Gros, he obtained the Prix de Rome in 1823.^[3] 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.^[2]

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

References

^ Thomas, Joseph (2010). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology: Clu-hys. Cosimo. p. 731. ISBN 978-1616400712.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rothkopf, Eric M. Zafran; with the assistance of Katherine; Resendez, Sydney (1998). French paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, Mass.: The Museum. ISBN 0878464611.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Bockol, Pierre Kjellberg; translated by Kate D. Loftus, Alison Levie & Leslie (1994). Bronzes of the 19th century : dictionary of sculptors. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub. p. 264. ISBN 0887406297.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Attribution:

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