Eugene Deshayes

French (1828-1890)

Eugene Deshayes (1828-1890) was born in Paris and began studying art under the direction of his father Jean Eleazar Deshayes, also an artist. The young Deshayes commenced exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1848 and continued to participate in exhibitions for the following two decades. He focused on landscapes in oil, particularly scenes of rural habitation, but was also a watercolorist, designer, and Orientalist. Some of Deshayesí small studies have received favorable comparison to the works of such renowned French landscape artists as Eugene Louis Boudin and Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. Currently, examples of his paintings are housed in museums across France, including institutions in Chartres and Rouen.