Alexandre Bloch

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Alexandre Bloch (29 May 1857–11 November 1919) was a French academic painter, specialising in military subjects.

Biography

Bloch was born in the Boulevard de la Chapelle,

Salon in 1880. He was a painter of genre scenes but also of historical patriotic subjects, exhibiting pictures at the Salon of episodes from the Chouannerie and the Franco-Prussian War
.

He was created a Chevalier of the

Légion d'honneur in 1911 for his services as a lieutenant of the military reserve in a territorial infantry regiment.[1]

At his death he was an accredited military artist of the Musée de l'Armée in Paris.[1]

He died unmarried on 11 November 1919 in the

20th arrondissement
of Paris. [1][2]

Selected paintings

Works

  • Défense de Rochefort-en-terre, 1885, Conservatoire départemental du patrimoine, department of Morbihan
  • Mort de Henri de La Rochejaquelein, Musée Dobrée, Nantes
  • La Chapelle de La Madeleine à Malestroit (Morbihan) - 15 nivôse an III, 1886,
    Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper
  • Mort du général de Beaupuy à Château-Gontier, 1888,
    Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
  • Le Lieutenant Chabal prenant un drapeau à l'ennemi en 1870, 1902, Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry
  • Le drapeau de Mars-la-Tour, présenté au Salon de 1902, Musée de la Princerie, Verdun

Notes and references

  1. ^
    Légion d'honneur
    of Alexandre Bloch
  2. ^ Archives de Paris, civil district of the 20th arrondissement, deaths of 1919, certificate number 4295, vue 29

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