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French, Realist painter. His work reveals a carefully crafted fusion of classical academic training with subject matter that is based on the everyday life of ordinary people. As a young artist in 1870s Paris, he was undoubtedly aware of Realist painters such as Gustave Courbet or François Bonvin, but the Dutch genre tradition of illustrating domestic scenes and rural life may have been equally influential. He embraced the Realist dictum to paint 'modern life'. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he developed a very successful career in a variety of genres; he continued to create naturalist images of daily life, both urban and rural, and increasingly focusing on religious painting.
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