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Alexandre Antigna (1817-1878) 
Aliases: Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna
Professions: Painter
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ALEXANDRE JEAN PIERRE ANTIGNA (French, 1817-1878). REST FOR THE WEARY, signed lower left. Oil on canvas.
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Alexandre Antigna (1817-1878 French)
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Alexandre ANTIGNA (1817-1878) "Le Breton" hst non
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Alexandre Antigna (French, 1817-1878) The poacher
Biography: Antigna
(b Orléans, 7 March 1817; d Paris, 26 Feb 1878). French painter. He was taught at the school of drawing in Orléans by a local painter, François Salmon (1781–1855). On 9 October 1837 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, first in the atelier of Sebastien Norblin de la Gourdaine (1796–1884). A year later he became a pupil of Paul Delaroche, from whom he acquired his understanding of dramatic composition.
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