Plombieres 1814 - Paris 1897. was born at Plombi??res-les-bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller. After a few years of hard struggle, during which he made a precarious living by drawing on stone and designing woodcut vignettes for book illustration, he studied painting under Gigoux, and subsequently under Corot, whose influence remained decisive upon Français's style of landscape painting. He generally found his subjects in the neighbourhood of Paris, and though he never rivalled his master in lightness of touch and in the lyric poetry which is the principal charm of Corot's work, he is still counted among the leading landscape painters of his country and period. He exhibited first at the Paris Salon in 1837 and was elected to the Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1890. Comparatively few of his pictures are to be found in public galleries, but his painting of "An Italian Sunset" is at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. Other works of importance are "Daphnis et Chloë" (1872),   Related Paintings of Francois Louis Francais :. | Admiral Sir Edward Codrington G.C.B., K.S.L., K.S.G. MP for Devonport, study for House of Commons picture 1836 | Madonna with Music-Making Angels dfg | Van Gogh-s Chair | Saint Jerome and the Angel | Viktor Rydberg |
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Walter field
1837-1901
Jean - Leon Gerome
French, 1824 - 1904
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ball at the valois court.c 1582 rennes, museum