François-Alfred Delobbe

Biography
1835 - 1920

About the artist

François-Alfred Delobbe, (1835- 1920) was a French painter in the Naturalist style who was born in Paris. He was apprenticed to Thomas Couture and William Bouguereau at the École des Beaux-arts, where he had been admitted at the age of sixteen. He had his debut at the Salon in 1861 with a portrait of his mother. Delobbe painted Mythological, Orientalist and genre scenes in the Academic style. His career was truly launched when he obtained a commission to decorate the Town Hall of the recently annexed Fifteenth Arrondissement. From 1875 until his death, he and his family frequently visited the artists' colony in Concarneau. The soft light of the region inspired him to focus on painting children and young women, generally in peasant scenes. He would often sketch during the summer, then finish the painting during the winter at his Paris studio.

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