1889 - 1962

Domergue was born on March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

The French painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a pupil of Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and was best known portraitist of well-groomed and graceful nudes Parisiennes. Also made his name as a designer of art deco posters with elegant women as eye-catcher. Nadine Lhopitalier, actress and later wife of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, had long been his model. Domergue before devoting himself to the above subject, however, he painted more than 20 years. Landscapes, with the beach face as a favorite theme. The artist lived from 1927 in Cannes, where he played an active role in cultural life and a wealthy clientele for his portraits of women did. Here he left in 1934, the Villa Fiesole (later Villa Domergue) building, where many celebrities, including Gina Lollobrigida and Brigitte Bardot, were posing.

From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up".

He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret. From 1955 until 1962 he was the curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, organising exhibitions of the works of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya and others.

Domerque at young age

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