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Artist
Achille Devéria
(1800 - 1857)
Related Person
James Fenimore Cooper I
(1789 - 1851)
James Fenimore Cooper
Date1825-1835
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSight: 4 7/8 × 3 1/8 in. (12.4 × 7.9 cm)
Object numberN0520.1963
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextAchille Devéria was a French painter and lithographer known for his portraits of famous writers and artists such as Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo, whom he entertained in his Paris studio on Rue de l’Ouest. His portraits were referred to by Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) as showing “all the morals and aesthetics of the age.” This likeness of James Fenimore Cooper was likely done when the family lived in Paris between 1826 and 1833.On View
Not on viewc. 1940