The Artist
Achille Devéria
n.d.
Medium
Crayon and tusche lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.3 × 16.8 cm (8 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 24.2 × 19.5 cm (9 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104332
About the Artist
Achille Devéria · 1800–1857
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (1800–1857) was a French painter and lithographer whose prolific output and sophisticated portrait work made him one of the most important visual chroniclers of French Romantic culture. Born in Paris on February 6, 1800, Devéria came of age during the Restoration period and became closely associated with the Romantic movement that dominated French arts and letter...