Alfred Boisseau

From 1848 Boisseau lived and worked in New York City and later in Cleveland. In 1860 he moved to Montreal and later to Manitoba, Canada in the western part of the country.

Training under Paul Delaroche is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are United States. Work by Alfred Boisseau is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée de la civilisation, LSU Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art and Musée d'art de Joliette.

• Name — Alfred Boisseau • Born — February 1823 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 7 October 1901 • Place of death — Buffalo, New York, U.S. • Resting Place — Buffalo, New York, U.S. • Known for — Painter

Alfred Boisseau was born in Paris, France. He had an older brother who later served in government and the diplomatic corps. Becoming interested in art, Boisseau studied under Paul Delaroche, a fashionable Paris artist whose style combined neo-classicism and romanticism. In his early 20s, Boisseau moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, living there from 1845 to 1847, while his brother served as secretary to the French consul. Boisseau painted his first works on Native American themes - mostly of members of the Choctaw nation who were historically based in Louisiana and Mississippi. He returned to Paris, where his painting Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou (1847), now in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848. After that Boisseau sailed back to the United States, settling in New York City. There he taught art from 1849 to 1852. By 1852 Boisseau was working as a daguerreotypist in Cleveland, Ohio. He also advertised as a portrait and landscape painter, art teacher and art dealer. In 1860 he moved to Canada, where he opened a succession of three photographic studios in Montreal. While working as secretary and bibliographer to the Institut canadien de Montréal, he completed several paintings. Near the end of his life, he moved to western Canada, where he opened a studio in Brandon, Manitoba. There he produced paintings of Plains Indian natives. He returned to the United States and died in Buffalo, New York in 1901 where he is interred.

• Illustration — Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou (1847), Alfred Boisseau • Illustration — Montreal Street Scene (1890), Boisseau