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Narcisse Diaz, a French landscape and figure painter and founding
member of the avant-garde Barbizon school, was born in Bordeaux of
Spanish parents. His parents were refugees from Joseph Bonaparte's
Spain. By the age of ten, he was a penniless orphan in the care
of a priest at Bellevue near Paris.(1). The young Narcisse, who
had lost one of his legs to blood poisoning, was apprenticed as a
pottery decorator in Paris at the age of 15, (2) which may account for
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