Adolphe Demange
Adolphe Demange (10 September 1857 – 1927) was a French painter best known for oil portraits. He was born in Mignéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, as the eldest of seven children of Jean-Baptiste Demange, a farmer and weaver, and Marie Catherine Renaux. He studied with the pastel artist Charles Louis Gratia. In 1888 he married Marie Célestine Merel, and their daughter Suzanne was born in 1897.
Demange became an official portrait painter during the French Third Republic. He painted friends, relatives, and notable people, including Lucienne Noël de Gérardmer in 1894. He lived in Nancy in the 1890s, in Asnières in 1898, and after 1901 in Paris (17th arrondissement). He joined the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited at its Salons from 1896 to 1926.
He also wrote poetry, published posthumously in Poésies gastronomiques et autres (1936). Demange died in 1927. His works include Portrait de Madame Allan in the Musée de la Comédie Française, and a portrait of Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchesse d’Uzès, shown working on a large sculpture of Joan of Arc in Alexandre Falguière’s workshop in 1900.
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