Jean Paul Alaux (1788–1858), also known as Gentil, 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 composi ...

and

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

born at

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...

on 4 October 1788. His father Pierre-Joseph Alaux was also an artist as were his two older brothers, Jean Alaux, who had the nickname of "the Roman", and Jean-Pierre Alaux (1783–1858). A pupil of Pierre Lacour and

Horace Vernet Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 178917 January 1863), more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. Biography Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who w ...

, he went on to teach at the Lycée de Bordeaux between 1807 and 1858. Later he became director of the School of Design at Bordeaux. ''View of Floirac'' was the first painted he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1827; two years later, in 1831, his exhibit was ''View of Bordeaux Seen from Floirac''; ''View of Bordeaux from the Saint Raphael Barracks to the Church of Saint Eulalia'' was displayed in 1833. He died at Bordeaux on 24 January 1858.

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19th-century French painters French male painters French lithographers Artists from Bordeaux 1788 births 1858 deaths 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub