André Castaigne
French painter (1861–1929) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean Alexandre Michel André Castaigne[1] (7 January 1861,[2] in Angoulême, Charente[3] – 1929, in Angoulême) was a French artist and engraver, a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. Subsequently he became a leading illustrator in the United States. He is often recalled as the original illustrator of the first edition of The Phantom of the Opera.
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Castaigne also created more than 36 art pieces about Alexander the Great for an 1898–99 series.[4] As an illustrator, he captured images of the first modern olympics; he drew pictures of the 1896 Olympic Games for Scribner's Magazine.