Danguy Jean Augustin (1863-1926) - Homme dans un paysage urbain

Jean Célestin Danguy was born on November 23, 1863, in Gagny, at his maternal grandmother Rose Thorel, who was the head of the post office there. His father Célestin Danguy was a history painter.

He was a pupil of Gustave Moreau, Gustave Boulanger, Jules Lefebvre, Gabriel Ferrier and Henri-Léopold Lévy.

He won the First Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1888 for Jesus and the Paralytic.

A portraitist and genre painter, he was a member of the Salon des Artistes Français, where he earned a bronze medal in 1913.

He resided at 100 Rue du Cherche-Midi in 1893.

In 1894, several of his drawings were lithographed by Maurice Dumont for L'Épreuve.

He died on December 17, 1926, at the Broussais Hospital in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.