Alexandre Desgoffe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French landscape painter
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Alexandre Desgoffe
- Alexandre Desgoffe (1805–1882) was a French landscape painter born in Paris.
- He studied under Ingres, and travelled in Italy from 1837 to 1842.
- He usually introduced into his landscapes historical or mythological incidents, and he also painted some Biblical subjects.
- The Luxembourg Gallery has his Fury of Orestes, and the Museum of Lyons his Cyclops.
- He decorated the Salle des Etudes of the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1868.
- He died in Paris in 1882. His nephew was the still-life painter Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe (1830–1901).
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