Jean-Gabriel Domergue | |
Birth Date: | 4 March 1889 |
Birth Place: | Bordeaux, France |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Education: | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts |
Known For: | Portraits of Parisian women |
Awards: | Prix de Rome, Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts |
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889[1] - 16 November 1962[2]) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.
Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome.[2] From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits,[3] and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up". He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret. From 1955 until 1962 he was the curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, organising exhibitions of the works of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya and others. Domergue was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.He died 16 November 1962 on a Paris sidewalk.[2]
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938.[4]