Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe Explained

Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe (January 17, 1830 – May 2, 1901) was a French painter who specialized in meticulously finished still-life paintings.^[1] He was the nephew of the painter Alexandre Desgoffe and father of the painter Jules Desgoffe.

He was born in Paris and studied under Hippolyte Flandrin.^[2] He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1857 to 1882, where he was awarded a third-class medal in 1861 and a second-class medal in 1863. In 1878 he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.^[3] He was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900.He died in Paris in 1901.^[4]

References

• Champlin, John Denison, and Charles C. Perkins. 1913. Cyclopedia of painters and paintings. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1903. Descriptive catalogue of the permanent collections of works of art on exhibition in the galleries. Philadelphia: The Academy.

External links

• Blaise Desgoffe French blog with several pages about the artist, one in English

Notes and References

1. Champlin & Perkins, p. 397.
2. Champlin & Perkins, p. 396.
3. Pennsylvania Academy, p. 150.
4. http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?&where=France&when=A.D.+1800-1900&what=Oil+paint&who=Blaise-Alexandre+Desgoffe&pg=1 Metropolitan Museum of Art website