Alfred de Curzon

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Alfred de Curzon (born September 7, 1820 in Moulinet near Migné-Auxances , † July 4, 1895 in Paris ) was a French genre and landscape painter.

Alfred de Curzon came from a noble family in western France. He studied from April 1, 1840 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Michel-Martin Drolling . On the advice of one of his classmates, Louis Georges Brillouin (1817-1893), he moved in 1845 to the studio of Louis Cabat .

Thanks to the scholarship received in 1849, he spent two years in Rome. There he met Alexandre Cabanel , Jean-Achille Benouville , François-Léon Benouville , Louis Français and Charles Busson .

In 1852 he went on a study trip to Greece with the writer Edmond About and the architect Charles Garnier . He visited Italy from 1846–1847 with Louis Georges Brillouin .

He showed his works in the Salon de Paris from 1843 , he received a 2nd class medal in 1857, also exhibited in 1859, 1861 and 1863. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 he received a 3rd class medal.

Curzon married Amélie Saglio, the sister of the landscape painter Camille Saglio . Alfred de Curson is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (28th division).

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SURNAME Curzon, Alfred de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Moulinet at Migné-Auxances
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1895
Place of death Paris