Jules-Alexandre Duval Le Camus

Jules-Alexandre Duval Le Camus, a French historical and scriptural painter, the son of Pierre Duval-le-Camus, was born in Paris in 1814.^[1] He studied under his father, to whose style his own has considerable affinity, and under Drolling and Delaroche. He died in 1878. Amongst his chief works are:

• Tobit and the Angel.
• Petits Dejeuners de Marly.
• Rousseau writing 'Héloïse.' 1846.
• The Bear-Hunters. 1853.
• Macbeth and the Witches. 1855.
• The Flight into Egypt. 1857.
• Jacques Clément. 1861. (Luxembourg Gallery.)
• St. Elizabeth of Hungary. 1863.
• Martyrdom of St. Laurence. 1867.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Duval-le-Camus, Jules-Alexandre". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.