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Antoine Bourdelle, born Emile Antoine Bordelles, is a French painter, designer, and sculptor born in 1861 and died in 1929. He remains one of the greatest sculptors of his generation.

Painter, born in Normandy, died in Paris. He was a pupil of Bonnat in Paris (1882), then of Cormons. His pictorial influences come from Gauguin and Signac.

Jean CARRIES is considered one of the most talented and fascinating artists of the late 19th century, capable of combining the dual disciplines of sculpture and ceramics.

A renowned history painter, portraitist and illustrator, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel treated his classical and traditional subjects according to a symbolist aesthetic.

As an academic and professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, a frequent exhibitor at the Salon des artistes français in Paris and a member of the painting jury, Aimé Morot was an influential person in Parisian art circles,

Filled with honours and important responsibilities, Albert BESNARD was the first painter to whom the Republic honoured a national funeral, well before Georges Braque.