Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet, a French
portrait painter
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, was born in Paris in 1791. He also executed a great number of sketches of various national and military costumes, some of which are at
Windsor
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. He died at
Versailles
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in 1834. His portrait of the
Duke of Bordeaux is in the
Bordeaux Museum.
Gallery
File:DrahonetAchille.jpg, ''Portrait of Achille Deban de Laborde'', 1817, Clark Art Institute
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, Williamstown
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19th-century French painters
French male painters
French portrait painters
1791 births
1834 deaths
Painters from Paris
19th-century French male artists
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