Alphonse Lamotte color print after Emile Bayard "Un marché" ("A market")

Alphonse Lamotte color print after Emile Bayard "Un marché" (18th century).
Published by Michel Bernard in Paris.

Frame dimensions included: 66.5 x 51.5 cm

Alphonse Lamotte, born in Le Havre on December 10, 1844 and died there on May 12, 1914, was a French engraver and burinist.
A pupil of Jean-Jacques Outhwaite and Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, Alphonse Lamotte made his debut at the 1869 Salon. He produced a large number of portraits and interpretive engravings.
A member of the Société des artistes français since 1883, he won third-class (1877), second-class (1880) and first-class (1883) medals.
He won a gold medal at the Nice International Exhibition (1883-1884), an honorary medal at the 1883 Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, and a gold medal at the Amsterdam International Exhibition (1883), Diplôme d'Honneur at the Exposition des lauréats de France in London (1887), Gold Medallist at the Melbourne International Exhibition (1888), Gold Medallist at the 1888 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona, Gold Medallist at the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
He was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur on October 29, 1889.
Lamotte directs and teaches at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts. He is curator of the city's museum.

Émile-Antoine Bayard, born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre on November 2, 1837 and died in Cairo on December 10, 1891, was a French painter, decorator, draughtsman and illustrator. It is mainly his drawings for publishing commissions that attract the attention of today's art lovers.
A student of Léon Cogniet, Émile Bayard was a contemporary of Gustave Doré.
His talent was regularly called upon to illustrate the newspapers and periodicals of the time. His drawings appeared in Le Journal de la jeunesse, Le Tour du monde, L'Illustration, Le Journal pour rire, Le Journal pour tous and Le Journal des voyages.

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