Alfred Chataud

Marc Alfred Chataud (17 August 1833, Marseille – 11 May 1908, Algiers) was a French Orientalist painter.

Eventually, he decided to became an artist and was a student of Émile Loubon at his drawing school in Marseille, from 1857 to 1860.

His family owned real estate in Algeria, so he visited there several times, beginning in 1856.

In 1897, he was one of the founders of the "Société des Artistes Algeriens", and became its deputy chairman in 1904.

Together with Hippolyte Lazerges and Joseph Sintès, he helped establish the "Algerian School" of painting.