Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval

Training under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Works named in the authority record are Annunciation, Madame de Loynes and Birth of Venus. Work by Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Hermitage Museum and Musée d'Orsay. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.

He was born in Montrouge. One of the first students in Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's studio (a strong influence on all Duval's works), Duval took part in the 1829 artists' and scholars' expedition sent by Charles X of France to Greece as the Morea Expedition to produce its archaeological drawings. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1833 with many portraits such as his Green Lady (no longer extant) and his Self-portrait (still to be seen in the musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes). In 1834 he exhibited his "Greek shepherd discovering an antique bas-relief". From 1834 to 1836 he took a long Grand Tour to Florence, Rome, and Naples, where he discovered Italian Renaissance art. On returning to France he was one of the artists commissioned to decorate churches by the government of Louis-Philippe then Napoleon III – the Sainte Philomène chapel at the église Saint-Merry (1840–1844), the chapel of the virgin at Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris (1844–1846) then the parish church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1849–1856). He also published his memoirs. He died in Paris on Christmas Day, 1885.

Baudelaire fiercely criticised the Duval and Ingres school:

76 paintings and drawings by Duval are known, including the following: • Illustration — The Birth of Venus, 1862, oil on canvas, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille • Illustration — Annunciation • Illustration — Madame de Loynes (Jeanne Détourbay), 1862, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay • Illustration — Ancient bather • Illustration — Saint Filomena • Illustration — Woman from St. Jean de Luz • Illustration — The bather, destroyed during World War II • Illustration — Study of a child, destroyed 1940