Alphonse François

Training under Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Alphonse François is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Prints and Photographs Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.

He was born on August 25, 1814, in Paris. Alphonse François and his elder brother Charles-Rémy-Jules François (died 1861) learned engraving at the school of Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont. He did a large number of engravings, from works by contemporary French painters and by old Italian masters. François was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1857 and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France in 1873. He died in 1888, at the age of 77.

• Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes (“Bonaparte crossing the Alps”), • Marie-Antoinette au Tribunal révolutionnaire (“Marie Antoinette before the revolutionary tribunal”) and • Le jeune Pic de la Mirandole apprenant à lire avec sa mère (“The young Giovanni Pico della Mirandola learning from his mother how to read”), after Paul Delaroche; • La vision d'Ézéchiel (“The vision of Ezekiel”), after Raphael; • La tentation du Christ (“The temptation of Christ”), • Mignon et son père (“Mignon and her father”) and • Mignon dans l'église (“Mignon in the church”), after Ary Scheffer; • L'épouse du roi Candaule (“The wife of the king Candaules”), after Jean-Léon Gérôme; • Le couronnement de la Vierge Marie (“The crowning of the Virgin Mary,” from the chapel of San Jacopo Maggiore in Fiesole), an engraving which won him a medal in 1867.