Jean-Paul Laurens

Stijl: Academicism;

Plaats: Fourquevaux

Geboren: 1838

Dood: 1921

Biografie:

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...