(b Paris, 16 Dec 1862; d Paris, 30 June 1917). French painter, pastellist and draughtsman. He studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1876 to 1881 and made his début at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1882 with a portrait of Mlle Dufresne. He soon became successful as a portrait painter of the aristocracy and the French élite (e.g. Paul Escudier; Paris, Petit Pal.). He was concerned only with the depiction of physical likeness and the rendering of elegant dress and showed little interest in the sitter’s psychology or character (e.g. Woman in Pink, Nancy, Mus. B.-A.). He was an acute observer of the fashionable Parisian woman and often included her, along with children, in his many paintings of Paris, especially of the Jardins du Luxembourg (e.g. Le Luxembourg). In addition to painting in oil and pastel, he executed drawings in charcoal and pencil.

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