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(1) Claude-Marie Dubufe
(b Paris, 1790; d La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 24 April 1864). His father, a chef d’institution, educated him for a career in the diplomatic service. At the age of 19 he was nominated vice-consul and was on the point of leaving for America when David (who had given Dubufe some instruction) persuaded his father to allow him to train as a painter. Dubufe received no further support from his father and paid for his lessons with David by playing the violin in an orchestra. He made his Salon début in 1810 with A Roman Allowing his Family to Die of Hunger rather than Touch a Sum of Money Entrusted to his Keeping; like Achilles Protecting Iphigenia (Salon of 1812) and Christ Calming the Tempest (Salon of 1819), this picture has disappeared. His earliest surviving composition, Apollo and Cyparissus (1821; Avignon, Mus. Calvet), exhibited in 1822, is elegantly mannered in a style inspired by Girodet but did not appeal much to the critics. He then painted the first of a number of sentimental genre pictures in the manner of The Surprise (exh. RA 1828; London, N.G.), of which the most famous, Souvenirs and Regrets (Pasadena, CA, Norton Simon Mus.), were widely known through many engraved versions.
Part of the Dubufe family
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