''The Valley of the Nymph Egeria'' Alexandre Desgoffe (1805–1882) was a French

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...

born in Paris. He studied under

Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the a ...

, and travelled in Italy from 1837 to 1842. He usually introduced into his landscapes historical or mythological incidents, and he also painted some Biblical subjects. The

Luxembourg Gallery Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small land ...

has his ''Fury of Orestes'', and the Museum of Lyons his ''Cyclops''. He decorated the Salle des Etudes of the

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in 1868. He died in Paris in 1882. His nephew was the still-life painter Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe (1830–1901).

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* 1805 births 1882 deaths French landscape painters Painters from Paris 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub