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Alexandre-François Desportes
Alexandre-François Desportes (24 February 1661 — 20 April 1743) was a French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animals. Desportes was born in Champigneul, Marne. He studied in Paris, in the studio of the Flemish painter Nicasius Bernaerts, a pupil of Frans Snyders. After a brief soujourn in Poland, 1695-96, where 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. In 1712-13 he spent six months in England. He received many commissions for decorative panels for the royal châteaux: Versailles, Marly, Meudon, Compiègne and, his last royal commission, for Louis XV at Choisy, 1742. He also did decorative paintings for the duc de Bourbon at Chantilly. Both Louis XIV and Louis XV commissioned portraits of their favorite hunting dogs. Desportes would follow the royal huntwith a small notebook he carried to make on-site sketches for still lives of the game that resulted from the day's hunt, for the king to make a choice of which were to be worked up into finished paintings. In several paintings he combined game with a buffet of spectacular pieces of silver as they might be displayed in a dining room; these are precious documents of the lost silver of the reign of Louis XIV. His details of trophies of game or animals were used in cartoons for tapestry in which work of several painters was combined, woven at the Savonnerie and at the Gobelins (Portière de Diane, Louvre). For the Gobelins he designed the series of tapestries called Les Nouvelles Indes. At his death, in Paris, he left a considerable amount of work in his studio (where his nephew Nicolas had trained), which included studies of animals and plants as well as some fox-hunting sketches by Jan Fyt. In 1784, the comte d'Angiviller, general director of the Bâtiments du Roi acquired these resources for painter's models at the manufactory of Sèvres porcelain, so that Desportes influence in the iconography of French arts extended almost throughout the century.
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
PORTRAIT DE L'ARTISTE EN CHASSEUR
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- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Hare
- Man
- Pheasant
- Self-portrait
- Sighthound
- Sitting
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- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
GIBIER, FRUITS ET CHOUX FLEURS
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- Painting
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- 18th century
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
Gibier, fleurs, fruits et un chien
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- Painting
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- 18th century
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
GIBIER, LEGUMES, FRUITS ET DEUX CHIENS
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Dog
- Hare
- Pheasant
- Still life
- Vegetable
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- 18th century
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
CHIEN GARDANT DU GIBIER AUPRES D'UN BUISSON DE ROSES
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Hare
- Pheasant
- Rose
- Still life
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- 18th century
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
VOLAILLE, GIBIER, LEGUMES ET FRUITS DANS UNE CUISINE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Celery
- Duck
- Hare
- Kohlrabi
- Still life
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- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
NATURE MORTE A L'AIGUIERE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Goldsmith
- Grape
- Guinea pig
- Pear
- Still life
- True parrot
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- 18th century
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
OISEAUX EXOTIQUES
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Arecaceae
- Bird of prey
- Duck
- Mountain
- Pelican
- Reed (plant)
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- 18th century
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
NATURE MORTE DE FRUITS DANS UN PAYSAGE
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- Painting
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- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
UN LIEVRE, UN FUSIL, DES PERDRIX ET AUTRES OISEAUX PLACES...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Deciduous
- Rabbit
- Still life
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- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
CANARDS, FAISANS ET FRUITS PRES D'UNE FONTAINE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Duck
- Grape
- Individual
- Pheasant
- Still life
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- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
NATURE MORTE AU PAON
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Alexandre-François Desportes
LA CHASSE AU LOUP
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
BRIADOR
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Dog
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
BALTAZAR
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Dog
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
FANFARANT
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Dog
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Diane et Blonde, chiennes de la meute de Louis XIV, chassant
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Bonne, Nonne et Pomme, chiennes de la meute de Louis XIV
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Nature morte au lièvre mort
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ceramic
- Game (food)
- Grape
- Hare
- Plum
- Still life
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Etude de deux plantes à larges feuilles
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Portrait de Desportes en chasseur
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Portrait
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Chat projetant sa tête en avant
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cat
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Chiens attaquant un cerf
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Chien épagneul blanc et perroquet
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Dog
- True parrot
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Débuché de cerf
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- Artist(s):
- Alexandre-François Desportes
Chasse aux renards
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