Alexandre Jean Dubois-Drahonet

The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Versailles and Netherlands. Work by Alexandre Jean Dubois-Drahonet is recorded in the collections of Centraal Museum, Rijksmuseum, Frans Hals Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Condé Museum.

Alexandre-Jean Dubois was the son of Claude Jacques Dubois and Angélique Victoire Gallet. He married Élisabeth Cornelia Drahonet, daughter of the painter Pierre Drahonet (1761-1817). He executed a great number of sketches of various national and military costumes, some of which are at Windsor. In 1828 King William IV of Great Britain commissioned a set of 100 small paintings in "oil on card", measuring 34.9 x 25.5 x 0.2 cm, illustrating the various uniforms of the British military. Most of these remain in the Royal Collection. Framed groups of them can be seen in a photograph of the Equerry's Room in Windsor Castle of around 1900. A range of ranks are shown, and the models all named; whether they were all as tall and slim as he shows them might be doubted. He also produced a number of portraits of young boys in military uniform, including one of the Duke of Bordeaux in the Bordeaux Museum. He died at his home in Versailles on August 30, 1834.

• Illustration — The young Duke of Bordeaux in a military uniform, 1828 • Illustration — Portrait of Achille Deban de Laborde, 1817, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown • Illustration — Lucretia Johanna van Winter, 1825 • Illustration — Portrait of the Marchioness of Londonderry, 1831 • Illustration — Female Nude, private collection, 1831 • Illustration — Female Nude, private collection, 1831 • Illustration — Colour-Sergeant Alexander McDonald, Scots Fusilier Guards, Royal Collection • Illustration — Private John Kernan (b. 1806), 7th Dragoon Guards • Illustration — Portrait en pied de S. A. R. Madame, duchesse de Berry, 1828, huile sur toile, Amiens, Musée de Picardie

• Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet, un talent retrouvé, Versailles, Musée Lambinet, from 25 november 2023 to 25 february 2024.

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