Armand Félix Marie Jobbé-Duval

Armand Félix Marie Jobbé-Duval (17 July 1821 – 2 April 1889) was a French painter and politician of Breton origin.

[1] He was the youngest of four children of Thomas Félix Jobbé-Duval and Charlotte Le Tournoux de Villegeorges (1791-1828), both from Rennes, who had married on 28 November 1811.

He obtained a grant from the General Council of Finistère to attend the School of Fine Arts in Paris, which he entered on 1 April 1840.

He was allowed to compete for the Prix de Rome five times between 1842 and 1847, and developed a rigorous style to meet academic requirements.

[3] Jobbé-Duval established his reputation with a series of monumental decorative paintings in the churches of Saint-Séverin and Saint-Sulpice in Paris, working at the same time as Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863).

He participated in demonstrations during February Revolution in which the July Monarchy was overthrown, and was part of the Government of National Defense during the Paris Commune in 1871.

Van Gogh (uncertain, 3rd from left) with Gauguin , Émile Bernard , Félix Jobbé-Duval and André Antoine (c. 1887)