Pierre Duval Le Camus

Eustache-Marie Courtin, 1813, now in the Palace of Versailles

Pierre Duval Le Camus, a French genre and portrait painter, was born at Lisieux in 1790. He studied under David, and became painter-in-ordinary to the Duchess of Berry. He died at St. Cloud in 1854. Amongst his works are:

• The Baptism. 1819.
• The Brothers of the Christian Doctrine. 1822.
• Interior of a Kitchen. 1824.
• Ennui. 1827.
• Labourer's Family returning from school. 1827.
• Halt of Huntsmen. 1837.
• Wolf-Hunting. 1838.
• The Blessing of Orphans. (Louvre.)
• The First Gatherings of Harvest. (Louvre.)
• Pifferaro teaching his Son. (Louvre.)
• An Interior. (Bordeaux Museum.)

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "DUVAL-LE-CAMUS, Pierre". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]