Alfred Boisseau (1823 Paris - 1901, Buffalo) - Canadian artist of French origin, in his paintings depicting the life of the Indians and the Wild West. He studied under Paul Delaroche, a fashionable Paris artist whose style combined neo-classicism and romanticism. From 1845-1847 in New Orleans, where his brother served as secretary to the French consul, he created his first paintings on Native themes - mostly of the Choctaw nation. His 1847 work Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou, now in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848 before his return to America, where he taught art in New York from 1849 to 1852.