He is a French painter (1832-1883), after 1870 he was associated with the Impressionists and came to use the lighter colours and free handling of Impressionism, and shared their interest in natural light as opposed to studio light. His earlier work is characterized by broad, fluid brushwork, an interest in direct, natural treatment of character in the tradition of Velazquez and Goya, and a remarkably predominant use of black, with strong, unmodulated dark-light contrasts e.g. in le Dejeuner sur l herbe' (1863) and Olympia (1865).
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