''The Valley of the Nymph Egeria''
Alexandre Desgoffe (1805–1882) was a French
landscape painter
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compos ...
born in Paris. He studied under
Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...
, 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
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small land ...
has his ''Fury of Orestes'', and the
Museum of Lyons his ''Cyclops''. He decorated the Salle des Etudes of the
Bibliothèque Nationale
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in 1868. He died in Paris in 1882.
His nephew was the still-life painter
Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe
Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe (January 17, 1830 – May 2, 1901) was a French painter who specialized in meticulously finished still-life paintings.Champlin & Perkins, p. 397. He was the nephew of the painter Alexandre Desgoffe and father of the pain ...
(1830–1901).
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1805 births
1882 deaths
French landscape painters
Painters from Paris
19th-century French painters
French male painters
19th-century French male artists
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