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Alexandre-François Desportes
(b. 1661, Champigneulle, France--d. April 20, 1743, Paris)
(b. 1661, Champigneulle, France — d. April 20, 1743, Paris), French
painter who specialized in portraying animals, hunts, and emblems of
the chase; he was among the first 18th-century artists to introduce
landscape studies using nature as a model.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
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