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Alexandre François Desportes (1661–1743)

• Was a French painter and decorative designer.
• He specialised in animals.
• He studied in Paris, in the studio of the Flemish painter Nicasius Bernaerts, a pupil of Frans Snyders.
• During a brief sojourn in Poland, 1695–96, he painted portraits of John III Sobieski and Polish aristocrats.
• After the king's death Desportes returned to Paris, convinced that he should specialise in animals and flowers.
• He was received by the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1699, with the Self-Portrait in Hunting Dress now in the Musée du Louvre.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Alexandre François Desportes, Still Life with Dressed Game, Meat, and Fruit, 1734.
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Alexandre François Desportes, Still Life with Dressed Game, Meat, and Fruit, 1734

Original, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Visited in 2017-2018.

Alexandre François Desportes, Still Life with Dressed Game, Meat, and Fruit, 1734

Alexandre François Desportes, Dogs with Flowers and Dead Game, c. 1715

Original, The Wallace Collection, London. Visited in 2018.

Alexandre François Desportes, Dogs with Flowers and Dead Game, c. 1715

Alexandre François Desportes, Dogs, Dead Game and Fruit, 1715

Original, The Wallace Collection, London. Visited in 2018.

Alexandre François Desportes, Dogs, Dead Game and Fruit, 1715

Alexandre François Desportes, Summer, 1711

Original, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts. Visited in 2020.

Alexandre François Desportes, Summer, 1711

Alexandre François Desportes, Summer, 1711

School of Alexandre-François Desportes, Game, flowers, fruit and a dog, c. 1712

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

School of Alexandre-François Desportes, Game, flowers, fruit and a dog, c. 1712

School of Alexandre-François Desportes, Game, flowers, fruit and a dog, c. 1712