(1661 - 1743)
Alexander-Francois Desportes was active/lived in France. AlexanderFrancois Desportes is known for still-life paintngs.
Biography Alexander-Francois Desportes
Alexander-Francois Desportes painted the Déjeuner maigre ('The Fish Repast') in 1739,
he had been the leading court painter in France of animals, hunts and
opulent tabletop still lifes for almost forty years. Received into the
Académie Royale in 1699 as an animalier, he quickly became a favorite
painter to Louis XIV and Louis XV, admired and depended upon for his
diverse abilities and technical proficiency. Within a few years, his
many hunt scenes, trompe-l'oeil trophies, portraits of the king's hounds
and studies of the exotic animals in the Ménagerie, were decorating the
walls of the royal châteaux of Versailles, Marly, Meudon and
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