Background
André was born in Paris in 1807, studied under André Jolivard and Louis Etienne Watelet, and became a landscape painter of merit.
André was born in Paris in 1807, studied under André Jolivard and Louis Etienne Watelet, and became a landscape painter of merit.
Foreign the Beaux-Arts architect, see Louis-Jules André
He travelled in Belgium, the south of France, and the Rhine country. And he was also employed at the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres. André painted in a manner halfway between the style of the old French classic landscape painters and that of the modern school.
He executed several decorative panels in the new Louvre Palace, and in the Hôtel d"Albe.
He died at Paris in 1869. The Galleries of the Luxembourg and Lille possess paintings by him.
In 1876 he painted a "Halt of Zouaves at Patay." Edmond died in Algiers in 1877.