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Birth
1829 (Bernviller)
Death
1905 (Paris)
Lived/Active
France
Often Known For
portrait, figural painting
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A French painter, he was born into a peasant family in the Sundgau and received his first artistic training at Altkirch with Charles Goutzwiller (1810–1900) and later in Strasbourg in the studio of Gabriel-Christophe Guérin (1790–1846). In 1846 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a pupil of Michel-Martin Drolling and, from 1851, of François-Edouard Picot.
While a student he was particularly drawn to portraiture, and during his frequent visits to Alsace he made (showing 500 of 958 characters). |
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