Edmond-Jean de Pury

Baron Edmond Jean de Pury (6 March 1845 – 7 November 1911) was a Swiss painter and engraver.

Biography De Pury was born on 6 March 1845 in Neuchâtel. He was a member of the de Pury family, a Prussian noble family of Swiss origin, and was a nephew of James-Ferdinand de Pury.

In a composite group portrait of students in Gleyre's atelier, de Pury was painted in the nude by fellow student Alfred Lenglet. Another student, Paul Milliet, wrote of the image in his memoirs: "The fragment…shows the athletic torso of…de Pury. Alfred Lenglet's painting is solid and luminous, but to render completely the elegant vigor of the model would have required the chisel of a Greek sculptor."

Although he painted landscapes, de Pury's main focus was portraiture. He was best known for his Italian figure paintings, mainly of working-class people of Rome, Capri, and Venice. His paintings were exhibited in Paris.

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