Alexandre-François Caminade
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Alexandre-François Caminade (December 14, 1783 – May 1862) was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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Caminade was born and died in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. He was a portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...

ist and a religious
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

 painter. He was Jacques Louis David's pupil.
See also, Larousse article at Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, eds. John Desnison Champlin and Charles Callahan Perkins

Main works

Flight into Egypt,
Marriage of the Virgin
Marriage of the Virgin
The Marriage of the Virgin is the subject in Christian art depicting the marriage of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The marriage is not mentioned in the canonical Gospels but is covered in several apocryphal sources, and later redactions, notably the 14th century compilation the Golden Legend...

, and
Adoration of the Magi
St. Etienne du Mont, France;
The Levite of Ephraim, and
Entry of the French into Antwerp
Versailles;
St. Theresa Receiving the Last Sacrament
Notre Dame de Lorette

Portraits

  • Françoise-Marie de Bourbon
    Françoise-Marie de Bourbon
    Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Légitimée de France was the youngest legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. Originally known as the second Mademoiselle de Blois, that style eventually gave way to the name Françoise Marie de...

    , 1834
  • Louise Anne de Bourbon, s.XIX, Mairie de Nozières y Château de Versailles (she was the niece of the above)

Bids

  • Album with 64 drawings, 34.5 -28 cm, Piasa, Hôtel Drouot, June 16 2004, lot 191, not sold
  • 27 drwaings in 2 lots, n° 171-173, Tajan, November 15 2004, not sold
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