Henry Caro-Delvaille 

After studying at the Bayonne School of Fine Arts from 1895 to 1897, Henry Caro-Delvaille became a pupil of Léon Bonnat at the Paris School of Fine Arts. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in Paris in 1899.

He won a third-class medal there in 1901 for his painting entitled La manucure2. A member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1903, he became its secretary in 1904. In 1905, he won the Grand Gold Medal at the Munich International Exhibition. That same year, his friend Edmond Rostand commissioned him to decorate his villa in Cambo. He went on to make a name for himself as a portrait painter and received a large number of commissions. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1910. 

From 1917, he travelled with his wife, Aline Fernande Lévy, to the United States, where he lived until 1925. There he painted many portraits, nudes, landscapes and decorative panels. His brothers-in-law were the painters Gabriel Roby and Raymond Lévi (his nephew was the future academician Claude Levi-Strauss).