Auguste-Hilaire Eugène Lampsonius (1822–1871) was a French painter and

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. He is best known for his illustrations of the works of

Eugène Sue Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (; 26 January 18043 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated '' The Mysteries of Paris'', whi ...

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly ; ; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is ...

, and

Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas , was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the mos ...

, as well as for his graphite portraits of

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actors. He signed these portraits as Eustache Lorsay. Lampsonius was born in Joué-du-Bois, and died in Paris in 1871. File:BalzacEpisodeTerror.jpg, Imaginary portrait of

Charles-Henri Sanson Charles-Henri Sanson, full title ''Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval'' (; 15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, as well as high executioner of the First French Republic. ...

by Eugène Lampsonius File:Eugène Lampsonius.jpg, La reine Margot (Queen Margot), by

, illustrated by E. Lampsonius and D. Lancelot, Paris, 1855.

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* 1822 births 1871 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French illustrators People from Orne Artists from Normandy French portrait painters Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub

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