The Bazaar, 1856, oil on canvas laid on board. Alexandre Defaux (1826–1900) was a French

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

. He was born in

Bercy Bercy () is a neighbourhood in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, the city's 47th administrative neighbourhood. History Some of the oldest vestiges of human occupation in Paris were found on the territory of Bercy, dating from the late Neolithic ...

and studied under

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast ...

. He was a member of the

Barbizon School The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name f ...

List of Paintings

* ''Brassée de fleurs dans une jardinière'' * ''Les Cerisiers en fleurs en Normandie'' * ''Country Landscape with Flowering Trees'' * ''Feeding Time'' * ''In the Shelter of the Stack'' * ''Intérieur de Paris. Barricade de 1830'' * ''Normandy Farm House'' * ''Paysage en Normandie'' * ''Poules pres d'un puits'' * ''A Fishing Village'' 19th-century French painters French male painters 1826 births 1900 deaths Pont-Aven painters 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub