Achille Deveria (1800-1857) A Young Woman Seen In Profile Black Chalk On Paper

Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A young woman seen in profile
Black Chalk on paper
with cut edges
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale of 1967 on the lower left
31.5 x 24.5 cm
In its original mount : 45 x 35 cm
Not framed

This beautiful study was undoubtedly taken on the spot, in the intimacy created by the artist. There is something very touching and above all very lively in the attitude and in the look of the young woman who seems concentrated, pretending to ignore the artist who is drawing her.
We are in the heart of French Romanticism, of which Achille Devéria was a prominent figure.

Achille Devéria was a French painter and lithographer known also for his portraits of famous writers and artists. Devéria became a student of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte. 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 famous artist.
Devéria spent his last days traveling in Egypt, making drawings and transcribing texts. He died in 1857.
Works by Devéria are in the Louvre Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Université de Liège collections.