Alfred de Curzon

Paul-Alfred Parent de Curzon (7 September 1820 – 4 July 1895) was a French painter, known for his genre scenes and landscapes with figures.

In 1838, Curzon attended the Salon and saw Médée furieuse [fr] by Eugène Delacroix.

[1] In 1840, Curzon enrolled at the École des beaux-arts de Paris and studied with Michel Martin Drolling.

Upon the advice of one of his classmates, Louis Georges Brillouin [fr], he switched to the landscape painting classes of Louis-Nicolas Cabat in 1845.

In 1852, he made an extensive tour of Greece, in the company of the writer, Edmond About, and the architect, Charles Garnier.