Artist: François-Alfred Delobbe (French, 1835 – 1920)
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after original by master engraver Professor Knolle (19th century) and Joseph Greatbach (British, 19th century).
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Dimensions: Image Size 7 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
François-Alfred Delobbe (13 October 1835, Paris – 10 February 1920, Paris) was a French painter in the Naturalist style. He was a student of Thomas Couture and William Bouguereau at the École des Beaux-arts, where he had been admitted at the age of sixteen,1 and had his debut at the Salon in 1861 with a portrait of his mother. Mythological, Orientalist and genre scenes in the Academic style were his original specialities.2 His career was truly launched when he obtained a commission to decorate the Town Hall of the recently annexed Fifteenth Arrondissement; one of only eight such commissions granted.1