Alexandre Bloch (29 May 1857–11 November 1919) was a French academic painter, specialising in military subjects.

Biography

Bloch was born in the Boulevard de la Chapelle,

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of the Légion d'honneur of Alexandre Bloch He was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jules Bastien-Lepage. He first exhibited at the

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in 1880. He was a painter of genre scenes but also of historical patriotic subjects, exhibiting pictures at the Salon of episodes from the Chouannerie and the Franco-Prussian War. He was created a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1911 for his services as a lieutenant of the military reserve in a territorial infantry regiment. At his death he was an accredited military artist of the Musée de l'Armée in Paris. He died unmarried on 11 November 1919 in the Hôpital Tenon in the

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of Paris. Archives de Paris, civil district of the 20th arrondissement, deaths of 1919, certificate number 4295, vue 29

Selected paintings

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Works

*''Défense de Rochefort-en-terre'', 1885, Conservatoire départemental du patrimoine, department of Morbihan *''Mort de Henri de La Rochejaquelein'',

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*''La Chapelle de La Madeleine à Malestroit (Morbihan) - 15 nivôse an III'', 1886, Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper *''Mort du général de Beaupuy à Château-Gontier'', 1888, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes *''Le Lieutenant Chabal prenant un drapeau à l'ennemi en 1870'', 1902, Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry *''Le drapeau de Mars-la-Tour'', présenté au Salon de 1902, Musée de la Princerie, Verdun

Notes and references

External links

Artnet.fr: Alexandre Bloch
19th-century French painters 1857 births 1919 deaths Painters from Paris Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur {{France-painter-19thC-stub