Antoine-Félix Boisselier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Antoine-Félix Boisselier
- Antoine-Félix Boisselier (22 May 1790 – 29 April 1857), known as Boisselier le Jeune to distinguish him from his brother Félix Boisselier, was a French painter.
- A native of Paris, he was of the same generation as Camille Corot and Achille Etna Michallon.
- He studied with his brother and Jean-Victor Bertin, and is known to have visited Italy around 1811, in which year he painted two oil studies of that country.
- He first entered the Salon in 1812, and exhibited frequently thereafter; in 1824 he won a second-class medal.
- In 1827 he entered the first Prix de Rome competition for historical landscape.
- He placed second behind Michalllon, but nevertheless appears to have traveled to Italy soon thereafter.
- Many of his Salon entries, and many images he submitted to provincial salons, were views of Italian sites and historical landscapes.
- Later in his career he painted in the Auvergne region, as well as the Dauphiné and Provence.
- Boisselier taught drawing at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, and maintained a popular studio; he died in Versailles in 1857.
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