Waxes by the Deveria brothers reunited at the Musée d’Orléans

28/11/24 - Acquisition - Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts - At the sale on 22 November 2024, the Oger-Blanchet auction house offered one of the very rare surviving waxes by David d’Angers, preparatory to one of the medallions in his famous Galerie des Grands Hommes. Representing the painter Eugène Devéria (ill. 1), it naturally aroused the interest of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans [1] who was able to preempt it for the very reasonable sum of €4,894.40 including costs. The museum already owned the preparatory wax for the medallion by Achille Devéria, acquired at the Talabardon et Gautier cher Ader sale on 23 March 2023 (read article). The two brothers, who shared the same workshop, are thus once again reunited.