Henri Delavallée

A fantastic student at school, in 1879 Delavallée enrolled simultaneously at the Sorbonne and at the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied under the finest art teachers of the period: Carolus-Duran, Luc-Olivier Merson, Henri Lehmann and Ernest Hébert.

In the early 1880s, one of his artist friends, Hersart du Buron, encouraged him to go to Brittany with him to find landscapes they could paint.

They visited the island of Ushant, Le Faouët and Châteauneuf-du-Faou before reaching Pont-Aven, where they stayed with his friend's cousins.

[1][2] In 1887, thanks to his friend Félix Bracquemond, he was introduced to Camille Pissarro and Georges Seurat.

In 1896, the family left Paris for Constantinople where he and his wife mixed with Turkish high society.