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View enlarged second image Desire Alfred Magne 1855 - 1936 A Lobster, Prawns and Oysters with a Salad and Tantalus Stock code: C2708 Signed, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 32 inches / 60.96 x 81.28 cm. Price category: E: £20,000 - £30,000 Literature : Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, Les Peintres de Natures Mortes en France au XIXe Siecle, Paris 1998, page 153 (illustrated) Desire Alfred Magne was a painter of genre, still life, animals and flowers. He was born in Lusignan (Vienne). He studied at l'ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers, then under the tutelage of Cabanel and James Bertrand in Paris. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1879 onwards. From 1894 Magne was a member of the Societe des Artistes Francais and in 1886 he was awarded an honourable mention. This success was continued in 1897 and 1907 when he won further medals for his paintings. Museums : Arras, Compiegne, Epinal, Poitiers and Rochefort BACK TO LIST