Alfred Delobbe was born in Paris in 1835. In 1851, he entered the l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts and studied under Thomas Couture (1815-1879) and William Adolph Bouguereau (1825-1905), as well as at the Imperial School of Drawing. In 1861, he showed for the first time in the salon des artistes Francais, a portrait of his mother that drew much attention to his work. Delobbe painted only what is considered fashionable for the time, which is very academic subjects completely in the artistic taste of the era, and did not stray far from these methods in his lifetime. During the 1860s, he sent work to the Salon, with most of the subjects being mythological or similar scenes, in the purest form that he was trained a...