Eugène Deshayes is a painter of the Barbizon School. He trained at the school of fine art in Algiers and received part of his education from his father Jean Eléazard Deshayes, who was a landscape painter.

Between 1848 and 1867 Deshayes regularly exhibited at the Salon in Paris. He became famous for his small, delicate, landscapes bathed in light, which can be compared to the works of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Eugène Boudin.