Self-portrait, ca. 1819, Musée des beaux-arts of Valenciennes

Joseph Félix Henri Auvray (1800–1833) was a French historical painter.

Life and career

Auvray was born at Cambrai in 1800. He was a pupil of Momal in Valenciennes, and afterwards of Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris. In 1824 he exhibited St. Louis a Prisoner, and in 1827, Gautier de Châtillon defending St. Louis against the Saracens, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai, and St. Paul at Athens. He died at Cambrai in 1833.

References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Auvray, Joseph Félix Henri". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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