Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse
Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse was a French neoclassicist painter and engraver.
Life
He was born in Lisieux, Calvados, he went to Paris in 1857 in a way to make his first exhibition. From this time and throughout his entire life, he exhibited regularly at the Salon. He painted mostly genre scenes—war, religion, and mythology—and is noted for his skill in composition and the use of color. He died in Paris in 1910.His work is strongly influenced by the reaction against the Republic, and by the Catholic religion. This is obviously an expression of his personal conviction: actually his family was a noble and traditional one, but the influence of his patrons was probably determinative. Much of Coëssin de la Fosse's work represents the chouans, like L'embuscade, or Catholic worship scenes such as Procession autour d'une croix en pierre.
Today, his work is owned by museums in Bayeux, Gray, Liège, Lisieux, Reims, Paris, and New York.