Émile AUBRY is a French painter born April 18, 1880 in Sétif and died January 9, 1964 in Voutenay-sur-Cure. Son of a military doctor, he studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly from where he kept a solid impregnation of the Greco-Latin culture. He was also a student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, which he joined in 1901 by joining the workshops of Jean-Léon GEROME and Gabriel FERRIER. He distinguished himself in 1903 in the painted sketch competition, and received a second Grand Prix de Rome in 1905 for his "Silène enchaîné" (Silenus in chains). He finally obtained the Prix de Rome for painting in 1907 for his "Virgile" (Virgil), at the same time as his comrade Louis BILLOTEY, which allowed him to stay at the Villa Medici in Rome. He produced most of his paintings in his Parisian studio in rue Chaptal. He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists between 1905 and 1937. He received on this occasion a gold medal in 1920, the Henner Prize in 1926, and a medal of honor in 1934. In 1935, he was elected to the Academy of the Fine Arts. Émile AUBRY was also a renowned social portrait painter.