Alphonse François

Marie Antoinette before the Revolutionary Tribunal , 1857

Alphonse François (born August 25, 1814 in Paris , † July 7, 1888 in Paris) was a French engraver .

François trained with his older brother, Charles-Remy-Jules François († 1861), under Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont . With great delicacy and elegance, he pricked a multitude of leaves, partly after newer French painters, partly after older Italians. Its main leaves include:

the passage of Bonaparte over the Alps
Marie Antoinette before the Revolutionary Tribunal
the young Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , whom his mother teaches to read, after Paul Delaroche
the vision of Ezekiel after Raphael
the temptation of Christ
Mignon and her father
Mignon in the church, after Ary Scheffer
the wife of King Kandaules to Gérôme
the coronation of the Virgin Mary from the Oratory of San Jacopo Maggiore in Fiesole . For this latter engraving he received the Medal of Honor in 1867.

In 1857 he became an officer of the Legion of Honor and in 1873 a member of the Institut de France .

literature

General artist lexicon . Volume XLIII, 2004, page 516

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personal data
SURNAME	François, Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 1888
Place of death	Paris