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Henri-Camille Danger
Biography Henri-Camille Danger (1857 – 1939) was a French artist known for history paintings, allegorical and mythological subjects, genre scenes, landscapes and designs for tapestries. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Aimé Millet, and exhibited his work at the Paris Salon from 1886 to 1937. Danger was awarded the Prix… Continue reading
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Alexandre Cabanel
Biography Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter, receiving commissions as Napoleon III’s preferred painter. Cabanel was the son of a carpenter, and he began his apprenticeship at the… Continue reading
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Jules Breton
Biography Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton 1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the leading artists of rural life. Breton was born on 1 May 1827 in Courrières,… Continue reading
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Theodore Gericault
Biography Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter whose best-known painting The Raft of the Medusa is regarded as an important early example of the Romantic movement. Born in Rouen, France, Géricault moved to Paris with his family probably in 1797, where Théodore’s father obtained employment in… Continue reading
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Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
Biography Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (ANG-grə; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. He was accomplished as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, but… Continue reading
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Léon Bonnat
Biography Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur, art collector and professor of many notable artists at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris. Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned… Continue reading
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Rosa Bonheur
Biography Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also sculpted. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair,… Continue reading
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Ernest Meissonnier
Biography Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (February 21, 1815 – January 31, 1891) was a French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille. From his schooldays Ernest showed a taste for painting, to which some early sketches, dated… Continue reading
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Carolus-Duran
Biography Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (July 4, 1837 – 17 February 17, 1917), was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France. He was the son of a hotel owner. His first drawing lessons were with a local… Continue reading
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Édouard Joseph Dantan
Biography Édouard Joseph Dantan (26 August 1848 – 7 July 1897) was a French painter in the classical tradition. He was widely recognized and successful, even receiving praise from a contemporary Modernist painter and critic Walter Sickert. Édouard Joseph Dantan was born on 26 August 1848 in Paris. His grandfather, who had fought in the… Continue reading
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