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Jean Delpech’s career from 1935 to 1950

In 2019, the Musée de l'Armée acquired a collection of over 700 drawings and prints by the artist, providing invaluable evidence of the Second World War: mobilized in 1938 in the Alpine hunters until the end of 1940, the painter, who lived in Paris during the Occupation, produced a quasi-ethnographic work on the war.

Jean Delpech’s career

Wins the Rome Prize for Engraving. Delpech stays in Italy for nearly four years at Villa Medici

https://collectionjeandelpech.musee-armee.fr/en/chronology/1948