biography
pronunciation:
[karyair]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1849–1906)
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| biography:
| Painter and lithographer, born in Gournay-sur-Marne, N France. He studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel in Paris (1869) and was taken prisoner in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. While in Dresden he was influenced by the style of Rubens, but his later work was characterized by lack of colour and vagueness of form. He was a close friend of Verlaine, Daudet, Gaugin, and Rodin, and his best-known works include Maternité (c.1890–5) and portraits of Daudet and Verlaine (1891). His soft tonalities inspired Edmond de Goncourt to call him ‘the modern Madonna painter’. |
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