Duclaux, Antoine |
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BORN 26 Jul 1783, Lyon - DIED 21 Mar 1868, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Métropole de Lyon BIRTH NAME Martin-Duclaux, Antoine Jean GRAVE LOCATION Lyon: Cimetière de Loyasse, 43, rue du Cardinal-Gerlier (89, Chapelle Testenoire) |
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Antoine Duclaux was the son of the merchant and linen trader Pierre Martin-Duclaux. His family was prosecuted and thrown out of Lyons during the period of Terror in the French Revolution. Two of his brothers were executed. The family settled in Charrecy in Burgundy at the Chandelux estate. In 1805 he went to Naples to become secretary to general Fursy Compère (1768-1833). He spent two years at the court of Joseph Bonaparte and in 1813 he painted "La Reine Hortense à Aix-les Bains", now at the Musée Napoléon in Arenenberg. He mostly painted animals and landscapes.In 1829 he married Jeanne Joyard, the daughter of the stockbroker Jean-François Joyard. Their son Joseph Duclaux became a painter as well. From 1830 to 1850 he and his family spent part of the year in Fornières. He died in 1868 in Lyons and was buried at the Loyasse cemetery. Related persons • painted Beauharnais, Hortense de |
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 Antoine Duclaux and Joseph-Hughes Fabisch were buried at the Chapelle Testenoire at the Loyasse cimetière, Lyon. Picture by Androom (03 Dec 2007) |
Sources • Beyern, Bertrand, Guide des tombes d'hommes célèbres, Le Cherche Midi, Paris, 2003 • Antoine Duclaux - Wikipédia (FR) |
