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Alexandre-François Caminade

French painter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ944567 ↗
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Alexandre-François Caminade (14 December 1783 – May 1862) was a French painter. Caminade was born and died in Paris. He was a portraitist and a religious painter. He was Jacques-Louis David's pupil.

Main works

Flight into Egypt, St. Etienne du Mont, France

Marriage of the Virgin, St. Etienne du Mont, France

Adoration of the Magi, St. Etienne du Mont, France

The Levite of Ephraim, Versailles

Entry of the French into Antwerp, Versailles

St. Theresa Receiving the Last Sacrament, Notre Dame de Lorette

Portraits

Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, 1834

Louise Anne de Bourbon, s.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alexandre-François Caminade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.