Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet

General-duke Gaspard Gourgaud, now in the Napoleon Museum of Île-d'Aix

Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet, a French portrait painter, was born in Paris in 1791. He also executed a great number of sketches of various national and military costumes, some of which are at Windsor. He died at Versailles in 1834. His portrait of the Duke of Bordeaux is in the Bordeaux Museum.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "DUBOIS DRAHONET, Alexandre Jean" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

• 2 Paintings by Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet at the BBC Your Paintings site