Pascal Adolphe Dagnan-Bouveret

Dagnan-Bouveret, Pascal Adolphe

French painter (1852-1929). Autograph signature. [Postmark: Neuilly sur Seine. Oblong 8vo (postcard). ½ page.
$ 195 / 180 € (84344/BN54847)

Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau. - Exhibiting at the Paris Salon from 1875 onwards, Dagnan-Bouveret was one of the leading French artists of the naturalist school, specializing in peasant scenes of Brittany as well as mystical-religious compositions, and was one of the first artists to use photography as a means of bringing greater realism to his paintings. - Self-addressed by the collector. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.

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