Excerpt from Catalogue des Portraits d'Hommes Et de Femmes C l bres, (1830 1900): Expos s par la Soci t Nationale des Beaux-Arts, dans les Palais du Domaine de Bagatelle, du 15 Mai au 14 Juillet, 1908 Portrait de pierre-joseph Alaux, son p re, n en 1756, premier de cinq g n rations de peintres du m me nom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.