Alexandre Bloch
Alexandre Bloch (29 May 1857 – 11 November 1919) was a French academic painter, specialising in military subjects.
Biography
Bloch was born in the Boulevard de la Chapelle, 18th arrondissement of Paris.[1] He was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jules Bastien-Lepage. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1880. He was a painter of genre scenes but also of historical patriotic subjects, exhibiting pictures at the Salon of episodes from the Chouannerie and the Franco-Prussian War.
He was created a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1911 for his services as a lieutenant of the military reserve in a territorial infantry regiment.[1]
At his death he was an accredited military artist of the Musée de l'Armée in Paris.[1]
He died unmarried on 11 November 1919 in the Hôpital Tenon in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. [1][2]
Selected paintings
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The Defense of Rochefort-en-Terre (1885) -
La Madeleine Chapel in Malestroit - 15 Nivôse, year III (1886) -
Death of Michel de Beaupuy (1888) -
Death of Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Works
- Défense de Rochefort-en-terre, 1885, Conservatoire départemental du patrimoine, department of Morbihan
- Mort de Henri de La Rochejaquelein, Musée Dobrée, Nantes
- La Chapelle de La Madeleine à Malestroit (Morbihan) - 15 nivôse an III, 1886, Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper
- Mort du général de Beaupuy à Château-Gontier, 1888, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
- Le Lieutenant Chabal prenant un drapeau à l'ennemi en 1870, 1902, Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry
- Le drapeau de Mars-la-Tour, présenté au Salon de 1902, Musée de la Princerie, Verdun
Notes and references
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