Delphin Enjolras is a French academic painter, the author of a large number of portraits, nudes and interiors.

The artist Delphin Enjolras was born in May 1857 in the French town of Cucuron. The future painter was the first child in the family of Casimir Enjolras and Delphine Laurent. The young man studied the basics of painting at the Paris School of Drawing with Gaston Gerard, and later at the School of Fine Arts with Jean-Léon Gerome and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.

In 1889, Delphin Enjolras was offered a position as a professor of drawing at the Grenoble School, but the young man refused this very honorable position and preferred to remain a freelance artist, returned to Puy-en-Velay and very soon became a very popular painter, and in the same year was admitted to the exhibition of the Paris Salon.

At the very beginning of his creative path, Delphin Enjolras painted mainly landscapes. Gradually, female portraits began to occupy an increasingly larger place in the artist’s work – Delphin changed genres, became a popular master of the nude.

The artist’s works are in museums and private collections of paintings around the world.