Dalpayrat, Pierre-Adrien (1844 - 1910)

French ceramist and porcelain painter. He worked for a number of porcelain manufactories. In 1889 he teamed up with the sculptor Alphonse Voisin- Delacroix (1857-1893) to found a ceramics workshop at Bourg-la-Reine. The art department of the Dalpayrat & Lesbros company, which operated between 1893 and 1905, first showed its works to the public, both at home and abroad, in 1892. During the 1910s Maurice Dufréne was among the designers the company employed. P.-A. Dalpayrat’s brothers - Adolphe (1871-1934), Paul (1885-1924), Albert and Hyppolite - also worked for the firm. Their ceramic products enjoyed great success at the Chicago Design Exhibition in 1893 and at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900. The company produced ceramic objects for La Maison Modeme.