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Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy (28 April 1789, Paris - 9 October 1874, Bellevue, Switzerland) was a French genre painter. His surname was Dedreux, but he was usually called Dorcy.
Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy (28 April 1789, Paris - 9 October 1874, Bellevue, Switzerland) was a French genre painter. His surname was Dedreux, but he was usually called Dorcy.
He was the younger brother of the architect Pierre-Anne Dedreux (1788-1849, winner of the 1815 Prix de Rome), [1] and uncle of the painter Alfred de Dreux. He studied for some time under Guérin. His paintings, one of which, called 'Bajazet et le Berger,' is in the Museum of Bordeaux, are in the style of Greuze. He also painted, together with Géricault, a picture called 'La Baigneuse'.
Dedreux-Dorcy was one of the closest friends of Géricault, having met each other in the atelier of Guérin. [2] When Géricault fell ill after a fall of his horse, he stayed with Dorcy for over a year. Dorcy afterwards was one of the few friends of Géricault present when he died on 18 January 1824. [3] After Géricault's death, Dedreux-Dorcy bought his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa for 6000 francs, while the French government, bidding for the Louvre, wasn't willing to bid more than 5000 Francs. He afterwards declined an offer to resell it to an American for thrice the price he paid, and sold it one week later to the French government for the same 6000 francs, on the condition that it was to be placed in the Louvre. [4] [5]
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Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Bryan, Michael (1886). "Dedreux, Pierre-Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. 
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