Alfred L. Boisseau (1823 to 1901)
Alfred Boisseau was born in Paris, France, trained under Paul Delaroche and exhibited at the Paris Salon. He moved to New Orleans in the 1840s and in the following decades worked as an itinerant painter throughout the Midwest and along the East Coast. His style ranged from genre, landscape and portrait painting. While in New Orleans, Boisseau came into contact with the Choctaw Indians, who were eventually forced to leave Louisiana. He was known to have painted Indian scenes, although they rarely surface.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, March 2007