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Alexandre Bloch

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

Biography

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Bloch was born in the Boulevard de la Chapelle, 18th arrondissement of Paris.[1] He was a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jules Bastien-Lepage. He first exhibited at the 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 Hôpital Tenon in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. [1][2]

Selected paintings

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Works

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b c d Dossier of the 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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