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Caricaturist alongside Daumier and Grandville in the golden age of French satire, then Barbizon painter of quiet fields and haystacks, Eugene Forest (1808-1891) lived two artistic lives in one, and...
Guignard, Alexandre Gaston (1848–1922)
A Paris lawyer who traded the bar for the sheepfold after the war of 1870, Gaston Guignard (1848-1922) became a medal-winning Salon painter of flocks and open country, a founder of the Societe Nati...
Chaplin, Charles Joshua (1825–1891)
Favorite painter of the Empress Eugenie, decorator of the Tuileries, and teacher of Mary Cassatt and Eva Gonzales, Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891) was the painter of feminine elegance in Second ...
Cals, Adolphe Felix (1810–1880)
The oldest artist in the room at the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874, Adolphe Felix Cals (1810-1880) came to Impressionism by his own path: a working-class Parisian, friend of Jongkind, pain...
Peraire, Paul Emmanuel (1829–1893)
A Bordeaux stockbroker who left the Bourse after the scandal of 1859 to paint the rivers of France, Paul Emmanuel Peraire (1829-1893) exhibited at the Salon every year for a quarter of a century, w...
Desvarreux-Larpenteur, James (1847–1937)
Born in Baltimore, trained in Paris under the great cattle painter Van Marcke, and faithful all his life to the pastures and flocks of the countryside, James Desvarreux-Larpenteur (1847-1937) carri...