Theophile Emmanuel Duverger

Place: Bordeaux

Born: 1821

Death: 1898

Biography:

Théophile Emmanuel Duverger was a French painter who was born in Bordeaux on 17 March 1821 and died in Écouen on 25 August 1898. He was the stepfather of painter André-Henri Dargelas.
Duverger was a self-taught painter who learned by observing nature and the works of great painters. He was an exhibitor at the Paris Salon from 1846 and showed portraits of women. Subsequently he dealt primarily genre scenes. He received a third class medal at the Salon of 1861, with a reminder in 1863. He won another medal in 1865.
His painting The worker and his children was bought by the State in 1865 for the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris and now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.

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