Jean-Paul Laurens

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Style: Academicism;

Place: Fourquevaux

Born: 1838

Death: 1921

Biography:

Jean-Paul Laurens (28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was often on historical and religious themes, through which he soug...

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