Background
His father was a civil employee of the navy.
His father was a civil employee of the navy.
Devéria became a student of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte. In 1822, he began exhibiting at the Paris Salon. In 1849 Devéria was appointed director of the Bibliothèque Nationale"s department of engravings and assistant curator of the Louvre"s Egyptian department.
They applied ink wash to several of the portraits in the album, possibly in preparation for printing lithographs from the photographs.
The album photographs by Théodule Devéria are dated 1854. Devéria spent his last days traveling in Egypt, making drawings and transcribing texts.
He died in 1857. Works by Devéria are in the Louvre Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Jean Paul Getty Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Université de Liège collections.