Anatole Devosge (13 January 1770–8 December 1850) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 painter.

Born in Dijon

Dijon

Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....

, he was the son of painter François Devosge

François Devosge

François Devosge, François III Devosge or Claude François III was a French portraitist and history painter. He was a student of François Rude, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Claude Hoin and is best known for his work as the founder of the école de dessin de Dijon...

 and grandson of sculptor Claude François Devosge. He was one of the many artists trained in the studio of Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

. David's work Les derniers moments de Michel Lepeletier survives only in a sketch by Devosge. The sketch formed the basis of Tardieu's engraving, distributed by the government to all 84 departments of France as part of the propaganda campaign following the death of Lepeletier and Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat

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.

His own pupils included Sophie Fremiet

Sophie Fremiet

Sophie Fremiet was a French painter.Born in Dijon, her father was the assistant curator of the city's museum, a patron of artists and a fervent Bonapartist. Sophie was taught by Anatole Devosge, a former pupil of Jacques-Louis David...

. Many of Devosge's works are held by the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon. He was for many years a teacher at the Dijon School of Drawing, and his estate included many works by pupils of the school.

Devosge's work, like that of his master David, was not popular with later audiences. A character in Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans . He is most famous for the novel À rebours...

The Oblate (1924) comments "Oh, what an absolute ass was this Devosge, what a priceless old woman!".