Alphonse François

Alphonse François (25 August 1814, Paris - 7 July 1888, Paris) was a French engraver.

Alphonse François and his elder brother Charles-Rémy-Jules François (died 1861) learned engraving at the school of Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont.

He did a large number of engravings, from works by contemporary French painters and by old Italian masters.

François was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1857 and a member of the Institut de France in 1873.

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Marie-Antoinette au Tribunal révolutionnaire , after a painting of Paul Delaroche.