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Alexandre Duchoiselle
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    ALEXANDRE DUCHOISELLE (1848–1886)

    Francis Antoine Alexandre Duchoiselle, generally known as Alexandre Duchoiselle, was a French sculptor and architectural decorator active in Paris during the Second Empire and early Third Republic. Long known to the art market simply as “Duchoiselle,” with even his given name unidentified in major auction catalogues, he can now be identified through French civil records as Francis Antoine Alexandre Duchoiselle, born in Paris on September 9, 1848.

    Duchoiselle was the son of sculptor Louis François Duchoiselle (1821–1887) and Clémentine Victorine Ismérie Hourdin (1826–1882). His father's profession suggests an immediate family connection to sculpture and the decorative arts, and he was probably ...

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