Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy

Who was Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy?

Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy was a French painter. She was a student and later wife of the painter Abel de Pujol, who had studied with Jacques-Louis David. Grandpierre-Deverzy, who always exhibited under her maiden name, made her debut in the Salon of 1822 with The Studio of Abel de Pujol in 1822; this work was one of several images of Pujol's studio that she produced over the course of her career. Grandpierre-Deverzy also painted interiors and literary subjects, including one painting based on Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward.