Alexandre DeFaux
Encyclopedia
Alexandre Defaux was a French
artist
. He was born in Bercy
and studied under Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. He was a member of the Barbizon School
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. He was born in Bercy
Bercy
Bercy is a neighborhood in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. It is the city's 47th administrative neighborhood. -History:Some of the oldest vestiges of human occupation in Paris were found on the territory of Bercy, dating from the late Neolithic . The name of Bercy, or Bercix, appeared for the...
and studied under Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. He was a member of the Barbizon School
Barbizon school
The Barbizon school of painters were part of a movement towards realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870...
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List of Paintings
- Brassée de fleurs dans une jardinière
- Les Cerisiers en fleurs en Normandie
- Country Landscape with Flowering Trees
- Feeding Time
- In the Shelter of the Stack
- Intérieur de Paris. Barricade de 1830
- Normandy Farm House
- Paysage en Normandie
- Poules pres d'un puits