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Francois-Alfred Delobbe

Woman Sifting Print by Francois Alfred Delobbe

Woman Sifting

La Fileuse Print by Francois Alfred Delobbe

La Fileuse

The Wood Gatherers Print by Francois Alfred Delobbe

The Wood Gatherers

Young Mother with her Child Print by Francois Alfred Delobbe

Young Mother with her Child

The Little Tambourine girl Print by Francois Alfred Delobbe

The Little Tambourine girl

François-Alfred Delobbe, (1835, Paris - 1920, Paris) was a French painter in the Naturalist style.


Biography

He was a student of Thomas Couture and William Bouguereau at the École des Beaux-arts, where he had been admitted at the age of sixteen,[1] and had his debut at the Salon in 1861 with a portrait of his mother. Mythological, Orientalist and genre scenes in the Academic style were his original specialities.[2] His career was truly launched when he obtained a commission to decorate the Town Hall of the recently annexed Fifteenth Arrondissement; one of only eight such commissions granted.[1]

From 1875 until his death, he and his family were regular visitors at the artists' colony in Concarneau, where he had been invited to come by its founder Alfred Guillou and in whose home they sometimes stayed.[1] The soft light of the region inspired him to focus on painting children and young women, generally in peasant scenes. He would often sketch profusely during the summer, then finish the painting during the winter at his Paris studio. Most of his models came from the Concarneau region.[3]


References

Rehs Galleries: Brief Biography
Galerie Ary Jean: Brief biography by Janet Whitmore

Fine Art Dealers Association: Brief Biography

Further reading

Henri Belbeoch, Les peintres de Concarneau, Editions Palantines (1993) ISBN 2-950468-55-1

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