Alphonse François (25 August 1814, Paris - 7 July 1888, Paris) was a French
engraver.
Biography
Alphonse François and his elder brother
Charles-Rémy-Jules François (died 1861) learned engraving at the school of
Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont. He did a large number of engravings, from works by contemporary French painters and by old Italian masters.
François was made an officer of the
Légion d'honneur in 1857 and a member of the
Institut de France in 1873.
Works
* ''Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes'' (“
Bonaparte crossing the Alps”),
* ''Marie-Antoinette au Tribunal révolutionnaire'' (“
Marie Antoinette
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before the revolutionary tribunal”) and
* ''Le jeune Pic de la Mirandole apprenant à lire avec sa mère'' (“The young
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola learning from his mother how to read”), after
Paul Delaroche;
* ''La vision d'Ézéchiel'' (“The vision of
Ezekiel
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In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ezekiel is acknow ...
”), after
Raphael;
* ''La tentation du Christ'' (“The temptation of
Christ”),
* ''Mignon et son père'' (“
Mignon and her father”) and
* ''Mignon dans l'église'' (“Mignon in the church”), after
Ary Scheffer
Ary Scheffer (10 February 179515 June 1858) was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, and Lord Byron, as well as religious subjects. He was als ...
;
* ''L'épouse du roi Candaule'' (“The wife of the king
Candaules”), after
Jean-Léon Gérôme;
* ''Le couronnement de la Vierge Marie'' (“The crowning of the
Virgin Mary,” from the chapel of San Jacopo Maggiore in
Fiesole), an engraving which won him a medal in 1867.
References
*
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon.
French engravers
1814 births
1888 deaths
19th-century engravers
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
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