Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval, born April 16, 1808 in Montrouge near Paris and died December 25, 1885 in Paris, occupies a unique place in the history of French art. Amaury-Duval, whose real name was Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux, made a name for himself as an academic painter, leaving us today with an impressive legacy to admire in exquisite fine art prints. Amaury-Duval came from a family steeped in culture: his father was the renowned diplomat, historian, and archaeologist Charles Alexandre Amaury Pineux, and his uncle was the famous playwright Alexandre Duval. The influences of these cultural roots shaped Amaury-Duval's passion for art. In 1825, he began his artistic career as a student of the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, a master of his time.

An important turning point in Amaury-Duval's artistic development was his participation in the Expédition de Morée in 1829, during which time he was able to sketch and draw in the midst of the Greek Revolution. A subsequent Grand Tour from 1834 to 1836 took him to Italy, where he intensively studied Renaissance art. In cities such as Florence, Rome and Naples, he came into contact with the epochal works of the Renaissance. His artistic career took off in 1833 with his first portraits at the Paris Salon. He became best known for his painting "The Birth of Venus" in 1863, which was selected by the Alexandre Cabanel and Paul Baudry jury along with two other works on the same theme. This work, now available as an art print, conveys the unique vision and distinctive style that Amaury-Duval cultivated in his works.

Amaury-Duval left behind a rich and varied oeuvre that can be found in many churches in Paris and with private collectors. Particularly noteworthy are his frescoes in the Chapel of Saint Philomene at Saint-Merry and in the Lady Chapel of St-Germain-l'Auxerrois, as well as the paintings he executed in the church of St Germain at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval leaves us a valuable legacy, which today finds its way into the homes of art lovers around the world through high-quality art prints. Although the paintings in the castle of Linières (Vendée) were unfortunately destroyed with the entire building in 1912, his other works live on in the galleries of Paris (in the Musée d'Orsay, Musée Carnavalet and the Louvre), in the castle of Versailles, in Compiègnes, Montauban, Rennes, Rouen, Lille, Dijon and Autun. Amaury-Duval received numerous awards for his work, including being made a Knight in 1845 and an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1865. But the greatest honor is probably that his art is reproduced today in the form of art prints that are equal in quality to the original work and reflect the extraordinary talent of this French painter.