Germain Détanger

He became a student of the decorative painter Joseph Guichard at the École des Beaux-arts de Lyon in 1860.

In addition to his canvases, he did decorative works, many of a religious nature, including frescoes at the chapel of the convent in Tullins (1869).

The chapel at the château of Benoît Charvet [fr], a businessman and politician, near Montbrison, also contains his work.

In 1899, he sketched designs for figures on the tombs of the Osias family at the Cemetery of Loyasse.

He was equally prolific in creating works of a non-religious nature; in the salons of the Montgolfier family, the naval steel mills at Saint-Chamond and at the prefecture building of the Rhône Department.