Simply precious - still-lifes by Blaise-Alexandre Desgoffe

 

1868. Nearly all of the titles for these paintings are nothing more than descriptive of the objects portrayed, so I'm only listing the dates, where known.

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1893.

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1868.

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1857.

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1887.

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Les Bijoux de la couronne, 1887.

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1878.

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1889.

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Circa 1900.

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1885.

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1897.

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La Table du collectionneur, 1869.

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1896.

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Œuvres d'art de la collection de Sir Richard Wallace, 1880.

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1896.

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1866.

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1869.

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Blaise-Alexandre Desgoffe (17 January 1830, Paris - 2 May 1901, Paris), French painter who specialized in highly finished, frequently very elaborate, still-life paintings. He was the nephew of the painter Alexandre Desgoffe and the father of the painter Jules Desgoffe. He studied under Hippolyte Flandrin and exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1857 to 1882; he was awarded a third-class medal in 1861 and a second-class medal in 1863. In 1878 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, the year before his death.