Jean-Gabriel Domergue

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889 – 16 November 1962 ) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.

Biography
Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome. From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up". He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret. From 1955 until 1962 he was the curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, organising exhibitions of the works of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya and others. Domergue was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He died 16 November 1962 on a Paris sidewalk.

Awards

 * Knight of the Legion of Honour
 * Fellow of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Jury
Jean-Gabriel Domergue was a member of the jury for Miss France 1938.