Decamps, Alexandra Gabriel, a distinguished French painter, born in Paris; brought up as a boy among the peasants of Picardy; represented nature as he in his own way saw it himself, and visited Switzerland and the East, where he found materials for original and powerful pictures; his pictures since his death have brought great prices (1803‒1860).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Decameron * De Candolle, Augustin Pyrame