Alfred Casile (1848–1909) was a French landscape and marine painter.

Biography

His mother was from an old, established Marseille family. His father was of Corsican origin and held a high position in the railroad company. He received his art instruction from Philippe-Auguste Jeanron at the . At first, he was employed by the dock company but, in 1879, was able to relocate to Paris, where he had his first showing at the Salon in 1880. Once he had become settled there, he took further lessons from Antoine Guillemet and made the acquaintance of several well known artists, including Camille Pissarro,

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and

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. After a lengthy trip to Italy, he returned to Marseille where, in 1891, he married Constance Dutoint, a woman from Brussels he had met in Paris. He and Constance spent several years in Belgium, where he painted in

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, Antwerp,

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and many other locations. After going back to Marseille, he slowly became addicted to absinthe, and died of its effects in 1909. Their youngest daughter would marry the painter,

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. His granddaughter, , is an honorary Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. His works may be seen at the

Musée Granet The Musée Granet is a museum in the quartier Mazarin, Aix-en-Provence, France devoted to painting, sculpture and archeology. In 2011, the museum received 177,598 visitors. History The museum, adjacent to the Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte, first ...

, Musée Calvet, , , ,

Musée de Grenoble The Museum of Grenoble (french: Musée de Grenoble) is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France. Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for ...

, Musée Cantini,

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It occupies a wing of the Palais Longchamp, and displays a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings fro ...

, Musée Grobet-Labadié and the . A street in Marseille is named after him.Adrien Blés, ''Dictionnaire historique des rues de Marseille'', Marseille, Éd. Jeanne Laffitte, 1989,

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@ ArtNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Casile, Alfred 1848 births 1909 deaths Artists from Marseille 19th-century French painters French landscape painters French marine artists 20th-century French painters

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