French painter (1845-1924). Autograph carte de visite. Paris. Carte de visite (9 x 5 cm) with printed name and address.
$ 139 / 120 €
(88461/BN58303)
Carte de visite with a handwritten dedication reading: "Avec tous mes remerciments pour votre amiable article" ("With all my thanks for your amicable article"). Cormon was a French painter who is most notable for his art school, the "Atelier Cormon", through which he became the teacher of many very famous artists such as Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. His paintings, that were exhibited in the "Salon de Académie des Beaux-Arts" in Paris since 1880, are realist depictions of historical or religious scenes and portraits. In his earlier years, he frequently painted frivolous or violent motives.