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A noted Neo-Impressionist painter, Hippolyte Petitjean was born on
September 11, 1854 in Macon. In 1872 he went to Paris to continue
his studies entering the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and also the atelier of
Alexandre Cabanel. He exhibited at the Salon beginning in
1880. By far the most significant event in Petitjean's
development was meeting Seurat in 1884. Petitjean joined the
Neo-Impressionist group in 1886, and in 1887 he showed his first major
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