Albert Dagnaux

Albert Marie Adolphe Dagnaux (10 July 1861 in Paris – 22 November 1933 in Mantes-la-Jolie)[1] was a French landscape, tableaux and figure painter.

[2] He began his studies in 1878 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts under Professor Ernest Victor Hareux.

His first major success came with his tableau Avenue du Bois de Boulogne; Le Club des Pannés, in 1893.

Another tableau, Le jardin du général aux Invalides, was presented at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

[2] Among his other works are the three frescoes in the refectory of the Lycée Fénelon (Les Jeux de l'enfance et de la jeunesse, Le Martin-pêcheur, Le nid) and a large panorama representing the fifth appearance of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous, produced under the direction of Pierre and Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse.