Eugène François Marie Joseph DEVÉRIA, born in Paris on April 22, 1805 and died in Pau on February 3, 1865, is a romantic painter and painter of French history. With Eugène DELACROIX and Louis BOULANGER, he is one of the main representatives of the French Romantic movement in painting. Eugène DEVÉRIA is the son of François-Marie DEVÉRIA, chief of office at the Ministry of Marine, and Désirée François-Chaumont, a native of Santo Domingo, whose family was ruined by the Revolution. The Devéria family has five children, Achille, Désirée, Octavie, Eugène and Laure. Achille, brother of Eugène, whose illustrative skills and hard work ensure regular cash flow during the hard years for their family. It is a family of artists with not only Achille and Eugène, but also Laure, the youngest, who shows a real talent as a designer and exhibits successfully at the Salon. She died prematurely in May 1838. In the years 1820-1830, the Parisian home of DEVÉRIA attracts artists and musicians. Eugene DEVÉRIA shows early talents for drawing and his brother Achille, he was a student, first enter the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under the direction of GIRODET-TRIOSON and Guillaume Guillon LETHIERE. The first letters of Eugene DEVÉRIA to the Salon date from 1824, but they are not noticed. In 1827, however, his monumental painting of The Birth of Henry IV was triumphant. His studio was located rue de l'Est, in the house of the sculptor Louis PETITOT, where also housed the Cartellier statuary, and the artist occupied half of it with Louis BOULANGER, who was finishing his Mazeppa while Eugene was working on The Birth of Henry IV. Eugene DEVÉRIA, who assiduously frequented Victor HUGO since 1824 with his brother Achille, was inspired by the subject of his painting of a novel by Abel HUGO, brother of Victor, published in Le Conservateur littéraire in 1820. At that time, Eugene DEVÉRIA was one of the best hopes of nascent romanticism. No one was more brilliant and made such promises. It was believed, when The birth of Henry IV was exposed, that France was going to have his Paul Veronese and that a great colorist had arrived. "The artist who began with this stroke of master was barely twenty-two years old," writes Théophile Gautier in 1874 in his Histoire du romantisme. Following this success, the young painter received many official commissions: a painting, intended for the ceiling of a Louvre room, entitled Puget presenting from Milon de Crotone to Louis XIV, portraits of historical figures for the Musée de l'Histoire of France that Louis-Philippe wants to create at Versailles; he took part in the construction of the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette church in Paris, in Fougères in Brittany ... But the triumph of 1827 was not renewed, he accepted in 1838 the proposal to leave the capital for Avignon where he was proposes to remake all the painted decoration of the Notre-Dame des Doms cathedral. The magnitude of the task, the insalubrity of the place and a dreadful flood where he fails to perish with his family exhaust the painter who, sick, weakened, leaves the papal city to recover in Bearn. In 1841, cured, he moved permanently to Pau where he remained until his death.