Henry-louis Dupray (1841-1909)

The General Staff at the foot of the mill, oil on panel signed lower left Henri-Louis Dupray (Sedan 1841 - Paris 1909 in Paris, is a painter, engraver and illustrator French He is known mainly for his paintings of history and More particularly military scenes student of the painters Leon Cogniet and Isidore Pils at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Dupray specializes in the representation of military subjects, and from 1863 he exhibits regularly at the Salon, the painter Edouard Manet belongs to his circle The scenes from the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars predominated in Dupray's work until 1870, when more and more drawings, paintings and illustrations of the Franco-German war were added. from 1870. He was appointed knight of the Legion of Honor in 1878.