Artist

Alexandre Desgoffe

Portrait of Alexandre Desgoffe
Portrait of Alexandre Desgoffe

France

Alexandre Desgoffe is a France Impressionism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art.

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).

Works by Alexandre Desgoffe

Collections represented

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