Alexandre Antigna
Alexandre Antigna scene de l'atelier - scene dallo studio dopo il bagno - after the bath moroir del bois, - specchiarsi nel bosco Alexandre (Jean-Pierre-Alexandre) Antigna, French painter. He was taught at the school of drawing in Orléans by a local painter, François Salmon (1781-1855). On 9 October 1837 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, first in the atelier of Sebastien Norblin de la Gourdaine (1796-1884). A year later he became a pupil of Paul Delaroche, from whom he acquired his understanding of dramatic composition. Alexandre ( Jean-Pierre Alexandre) Antigna, pittore francese. Imparò alla scuola di disegno di Orleans, da un pittore locale. Until 1845 his paintings were generally religious scenes and portraits. Yet, after living in the poor quarter of the Île Saint-Louis in Paris he would incorporate images of the suffering and burden of urban poor into his works. By the 1848 Revolution Antigna was devoted to the Realist styl...