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ALEXANDRE ALAUX b. 1851, Commercy, France d. 1932, New Orleans, Louisiana Etienne de Bore, ca. 1900 Oil painting; 3 x 2 in. Louisiana State Museum Born in France, Alexandre Alaux immigrated to New York City as a child and his family settled in New Orleans in 1855. Alaux studied with Francisco Bernard, learning the precise, highly finished, photographic style of painting popular in post-Civil War Louisiana. Alaux was a progeny, and at the age of eighteen won four silver medals at an exhibition held at the New Orleans Fairgrounds. As a mature, highly accomplished artist, Alaux focused on miniatures, landscapes, portraits, and historical paintings. He also painted still lifes along with marine, mythological, and religious scenes, and was much in demand by private, corporate, and institutional clients for copies of portraits, such as José Salazar’s Don Andres Almonester y Roxas. Later in life, he concentrated on increasingly ambitious historical, religious, and literary tableaux. RAL CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE NEW CENTURY 81  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1161 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1161

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