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Alexander-Francois Desportes

Alexander-Francois Desportes (1661 - 1743) was active/lived in France.  Alexander Francois Desportes is known for Still-life paintngs.

Alexander-Francois Desportes painted the Déjeuner maigre ('The Fish Repast') in 1739, he had been the leading court painter in France of animals, hunts and opulent tabletop still lifes for almost forty years.  Received into the Académie Royale in 1699 as an animalier, he quickly became a favorite painter to Louis XIV and Louis XV, admired and depended upon for his diverse abilities and technical proficiency.  Within a few years, his many hunt scenes, trompe-l'oeil trophies, portraits of the king's hounds and studies of the exotic animals in the Ménagerie, were decorating the walls of the royal châteaux of Versailles, Marly, Meudon and Fontainebleau, as well as the hôtels particulier of the Parisian beau monde.

Trained in the Flemish tradition of hunt painting by a pupil of Frans Snyders, he introduced the successful formulae of Snyders and Paul de Vos into French art in vast canvases such as the Deer Kill and The Wolf Hunt[Displaying 1000 of 6219 characters.]  Artist bio

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