Daphné Du Barry is born on 5 July 1950 on Avenue Utrechtseweg on the banks of the Rhein in Arnhem, capital of Holland's Gueldre region.

After secondary studies at the grammarschool in her hometown, she studied languages at Munich University and, subsequently, at Mac Gill in Canada. Daphné speaks seven languages fluently. Later she studied Modern Literature for three years at the Sorbonne in Paris.

In 1971 she met the publicist and artcritic Jean-Claude Du Barry in Salvador Dali's house in Cadaques in Spain, she and Jean-Claude were to marry a few years later.

Daphne enjoyed a short vocal career in the field of variety recording 45 rpm records on the Philips label, including "Porto Vecchio" (with words by Didier Barbelivien) which was a hit in the summer of 1982. Subsequently she studied design for five years in Paris with the Hungarian Master Akos Szabo.

Then she encounters Marcello Tommasi in Florence, one of the greatest masters of classical figurative sculpture in Italy,and enters his workshop as his pupil. At the same time she enters the Academy of art and Design in the Medici city.

Leading female representative of the classic  figurative style, she has a perfect grasp of proportion, of the contour of bodies and a sense of the transcendent. One is constantly surprised by the inexhaustible variety of her themes and the consistency of her style. Her pasion for the beauty of the bodies stems from an almost ideal inspiration, but it's the charm of the intelligence rather than of the senses that captivates us.

The work of Daphné Du Barry deepens our understanding of the magisterial remarkof Ingres : "There are not two arts, there is only one : that wich is based upon Beauty, eternal and natural".

Expositions :

• New-York (Peter Marcelle Fine Art Gallery 1992),
• Honolulu (RoyalHawaian Cenrer 1989),
• Washington D.C. Inter american Development Bank and Alex Gallery, 1991),
• Barcelona (Sala Gaudi 1991),
• Mexico (Galeria Honfleur, 1989),
• Toulouse (Galerie Sourillan, 1999),
• Paris (Hôtel Plaza Athénée, 2001),
• La Haye ( Galerie, Henk Broeke, 2002).
• Amsterdam (Galerie Mia Joosten 2003).
• Castle of Lavardens ( Gascogne 2003).
• Milan (VR Gallery 2006).

Since March 2003 her works are shown at the TEFAF Artfair in Maastricht, Holland.

Daphné Du Barry realized lifesize statues of the actor Klaus Kinski and the actress Allegra Curtis (daughter of Tony Curtis).

Her sculptures are in private collections in U.S.A., France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Mexico, Canada and China.

Monuments :

Monumental Statues :

• Pietà in the Cathedral of Auch in Gascony, 1990
• The baptism of Clovis by St.Remi (2.50m high) in Reims, 1996.
• Wynton Marsalis, bronze 1 80m in Marciac, Armagnac, 1997.
• Christ on the Cross, bronze 1.80m in the cathedral of Monaco, 1997.
• St.John the Baptist, bronze 2 m. in Malta, 1999.
• Queen Beatrix from the Netherlands, bronze, 2m. in Rheden, Holland. 2001.
• Dom Ruinart, bronze 1,80m seated, in Reims,1999.
• Princess Grace of Monaco, bronze 1,85m. in Monaco 2002.
• Blaise de Monluc, bronze 1,80m in Siena, Italy 2003.
• The Swing 2,20 m Riga (Letonia) 2003.
• The Fortune 1,85 m Casino of Monte-Carlo 2004.
• Luigi Boccherini 1,85 m Lucca Italy 2005.
• Father Charles de Foucauld 2,60 m Strasbourg 2006.

Monograph of the artist : : Daphné Du Barry, Femme Sculpteur

Editor : Argus Valentine
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Distinctions :

• Price Tito Cassini, Florence 1996
• Price "Renaissance des Arts", Paris 1997
• Cross with crown "Pro Merito Melitensi" the Maltese Order, 2000
• Cross of Lady of the Order of Saint Sylvester, Vatican 2001.
• Special Mention of the XIVth Salon National des Peintres de l'Armée Paris 2005.