title: Adolphe Aze
text: # Adolphe Aze
  
  Valère Adolphe Louis Aze (4 March 1823, Paris – 19 March 1884, Paris) was a French painter; specializing in historical and Orientalist themes.
  
  ## Life and work
  
  He was a student of the history painter, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury.
  
  He is remembered primarily for his paintings and sketches of Egypt, Istanbul and Algeria; done in oils, watercolors and pencil.
  
  His burial place is in the Cimetière Montmartre, 22nd division, in the chapel of the Léger family, with his wife Blanche-Marie Léger and her relatives.
  
  Among his best known works are; "Diana Surprised by Endymion", "Giovanni Bellini Drawing in the Streets of Venice" and "Philip II Meeting with his Son, Don Carlos".
  
  