André Castaigne: A series about Alexander the Great

Jean Alexandre Michel André Castaigne (1861 – 1929) was a French artist, engraver and book illustrator, 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. Castaigne also created more than 36 art pieces about Alexander the Great for an 1898–99 series.

The taming of Bucephalus

Pausanius assassinates Philip during the procession into the theatre

Alexander at the Temple of Apis in Memphis

 Alexander laying out the City of Alexandria

 Alexander addresses his officers before the battle of Issus

Alexander takes the cup of medicine
 

The death of Darius

 Alexander visits the Persian Queens and princesses after the battle of Issus

The punishment of  Bessus

The charge of the Persian Scythe chariots at the battle of Gaugamela

The killing of Cleitus

The phalanx attacking the centre in the battle of the Hydaspes

The Broken Ladder

The capture of  Miletus

The battle with the carts in the  Thracian Pass, the Modern Shipka Pass.

The fierce struggle of  Alexander's cavalry led by himself at the Ford of the Granicus

The marriages of Alexander and his men to the Persian princesses and ladies

The sacrifices at Troy

A naval action during the siege of Tyre

Alexander accepts the surrender of Porus

Alexander cutting the Gordian knot

Alexander at the altarfire on the eve of Gaugamela

Crossing the desert of Baluchistan

Alexander quelling the Opis mutiny

Alexander's army passing the foot of Mount Climax

Alexander coercing the Delphian Oracle

The wounded Alexander passing through his fleet



 The dying Alexander receiving his soldiers