French painter Louis-Jean Beaupuy was born on November 15, 1896, in Elbeuf (Seine-Maritime) and died on May 12, 1974, in Saint-Privat (Dordogne). Mobilized as a private during World War I in 1915, he suffered lasting spinal damage (diagnosed in 1917 as a convex deviation and later as residual lumbar Pott’s disease). In 1923, he married musician Louise Fernande Bouyeron in Paris; their son Pierre was born in 1926 before their divorce in 1934.
A student of Fernand Cormon at Paris’ École des Beaux-Arts, Beaupuy earned multiple diplômes and won the silver medal from the Société des Artistes Français in 1930. His career was marked by colonial expeditions: travel grants took him to Madagascar (1931) and French Equatorial Africa (1934), with works later featured at the Salon des Artistes Français and its Colonial Exhibition throughout the 1930s. His legacy reflects both academic rigor and the era’s colonial artistic currents.
