James Parry
Achille Devéria
1828
Medium
Lithograph on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 24.9 × 20.7 cm (9 13/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 44.5 × 34.2 cm (17 9/16 × 13 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9547
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...