Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are Claude Gellée and Claude Perrault. Work by Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Nantes Museum of Arts, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Musée Louis-Philippe. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay was born in Nantes, France on 2 April 1804. His father, Joseph Jan Baptiste de Bay, 1829, was an eminent sculptor who worked in Paris and locally in Nantes. Debay learned sculpting from his father at an early age, but started his career as a historical painter. On August 28, 1817, he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited his first portraits to The Salon at the age of thirteen. After studying under Gros, he obtained the Prix de Rome in 1823 with his painting Aegisthus Discovering the Body of Clytemnestra. Soon after this he gave up painting for sculpture, which he studied under his father, and in which he was successful. Some of his historical paintings are displayed at the Versailles. He died in Paris.

• Illustration — Denis Auguste Affre (1793–1848), archbishop of Paris • Illustration — The Nation Is in Danger, or the Enrollment of Volunteers at the Place du Palais-Royal in July 1792 (fragment) • Illustration — Aegisthus Discovering the Body of Clytemnestra (Prix de Rome 1823) • Illustration — Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, 1829 • Illustration — Madame Félix Crucy, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes • Illustration — Executions of the Sisters, 1793

Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded as having studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome.