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Biography from Osenat
Raymond Desvarreux (1876-1961) was the son of the American painter James Desvarreux-Larpenteur. He was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jean Baptist Detaille.
He painted landscapes, horses and hunting scenes like his father, but exhibits at the Paris salon of great compositions celebrating the Revolution and Empire campaigns and the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Desvarreux participated in panorama the Battle of Waterloo under the direction of Louis Dumoulin in 1911-1912, and won a gold medal at the 1913 Salon.