His father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of Véronnes.
Alphonse Daudet | Alphonse Mucha | Alphonse Merrheim | Alphonse de Lamartine | Alphonse Juin | Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr | Alphonse Royer | Alphonse Milne-Edwards | Alphonse Legros | Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou | Louis-Alphonse Boyer | Camille Alphonse Faure | Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty | Alphonse Loubat | Alphonse Le Gastelois | Alphonse James de Rothschild | Alphonse Boudard | Alphonse A. Kolb | Claude Alphonse Delangle | Camille Alphonse Trézel | Alphonse Yanghat | Alphonse Toussenel | Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato | Alphonse Sagebien | Alphonse Roy | Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle | Alphonse Poitevin | Alphonse Picou | Alphonse Kotiga | Alphonse Joseph Glorieux |
This was followed by The Four Masters of Etching (1883), with original etchings by Sir FS Haden, Jules Jacquemart, JM Whistler, and Alphonse Legros; Etching in England (1895); an English edition (1894) of E Michel's Rembrandt; and a study and a catalogue of Whistler's Etchings (1886, 2nd edition 1899).