Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe (January 17, 1830 – May 2, 1901) was a French painter who specialized in meticulously finished

still-life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, boo ...

paintings.Champlin & Perkins, p. 397. He was the nephew of the painter

Alexandre Desgoffe ''The Valley of the Nymph Egeria'' Alexandre Desgoffe (1805–1882) was a French landscape painter born in Paris. He studied under Ingres, and travelled in Italy from 1837 to 1842. He usually introduced into his landscapes historical or mythologi ...

and father of the painter Jules Desgoffe. He was born in Paris and studied under

Hippolyte Flandrin Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (23 March 1809 – 21 March 1864) was a French Neoclassical painter. His most celebrated work, ''Study (Flandrin), Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer'' ("Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea"), from 1836, is held in ...

. He exhibited at the

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

from 1857 to 1882, where he was awarded a third-class medal in 1861 and a second-class medal in 1863. In 1878 he was made a Chevalier of the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

.Pennsylvania Academy, p. 150. He was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He died in Paris in 1901.Metropolitan Museum of Art website
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References

*Champlin, John Denison, and Charles C. Perkins. 1913. ''Cyclopedia of painters and paintings''. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. *Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1903. ''Descriptive catalogue of the permanent collections of works of art on exhibition in the galleries''. Philadelphia: The Academy.

External links

Blaise Desgoffe
French blog with several pages about the artist, one in English {{DEFAULTSORT:Desgoffe, Blaise Alexandre 1830 births 1901 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French still life painters Painters from Paris 19th-century French male artists