William degouve de nuncques biography youtube

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At twenty-three, William Degouve de Nucnques was about to have his first exhibition in Paris, thanks to the recommendation of the great Auguste Rodin.

William Degouve de Nuncques (also Nunques; 28 February – 1 March ) was a Belgian painter.

But he had also recently experienced a contentious election for admission to the Belgian avant-garde Les XX and he was an impressionable young man. The aristocratic origins of the Degouve de Nuncques family have been called into question by new research but Degouve believed in them and so did his contemporaries. The poet Alfred de Vigny attributed the family's elevated tastes in literature, music, and philosophy to noble lineage.

More concretely, Henry de Groux described the artist's father as a character from a novel by Balzac. When Degouve was born in , the family was living at Montherme in eastern France. Schooled at home by tutors, Degouve taught himself to draw, eventually enrolling at the Royal Academy in Art in Brussels.