E. Armand Delille (marseille 1843 - 1883 Paris)

E. Armand DELILLE (Marseille 1843 - 1883 Paris)
Paysage du Morvan, bord de rivière animé
Signed and dated 188. lower left
Oil on its original canvas, 64 x 100cm

The ARTIST
Ernest Émile Armand-Delille was born in Marseille on December 29, 1843[1]. He began his career
in the French Navy[2], then trained as a painter with his mother, Colette Armand-Delille[3]. He
subsequently enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a pupil of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme[3]
.
He mainly painted landscapes of the Paris region, Savoy, Jura,
Normandy and Creuse, but also still lifes and flowers[3]. His paintings were exhibited
at the Salon de Paris (from 1874 to 1883), in Bordeaux, Marseille and Geneva[4]
.

His works include Soir (1878, preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de
Besançon), Mare à Guéret (1880) and Tournant de l'Orne (1882)[1]
.

Ernest Armand-Delille died in Paris on January 5, 1883[1], aged 39.

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Notes and references
1. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, t. I : A-C,
Paris, Librairie Gründ, 1939 (read online [archive]), p. 224
2. P. Veillon, Journal des Arts, February 27, 1883.
3. E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et
graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et
étrangers, Paris, Gründ, 1976, I, p. 263.
4. Journal de Genève, November 4, 1876, p.3.