Alfred-Philippe Roll

(b Paris, 1 March 1846; d Paris, 27 Oct 1919). French painter. He attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he was a pupil of Henri-Joseph Harpignies and of Charles-Fran?ois Daubigny, and painted his first landscape in 1869. He also painted animals and society portraits in the manner of L?on Bonnat and historical subjects under the supervision of Jean-L?on G?r?me, such as Halt! (1875; Metz, Mus. A. & Hist.), which depicts an episode in the Franco-Prussian War. His interest in documenting the celebrations of the Third Republic can be seen in Centenary of 1789, which he exhibited in 1893, and the Laying of the First Stone of the Pont Alexandre III (1899; both Versailles, Ch?teau). In an essentially Realist style and light palette adapted from Impressionism, he recorded typical representatives of contemporary working life such as Manda Lam?trie, Farmer's Wife (1887; Paris, Mus. d'Orsay) and more contentious political subjects such as the Miners' Strike (1884; Valenciennes, Mus. B.-A.).

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