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Cesar Pattein, French 1850-1931
A son of a farmer, Cesar Pattein was born in Steenvoorde, France. Following the example of his artistic brothers, he studied engraving from a local artist by the name of Cabasson. In 1878 he was accepted at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille under Alphonse Colas, a painter of genre subjects. Pattein as also a student of Jules Breton, a painter of poetic landscapes and of human nature. Breton was to influence his use of the peasants (showing 500 of 1984 characters). |