Who painted “The Pearl and the Wave”?

“The Pearl and the Wave” was painted by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry in 1862. Where to see it: Museo del Prado.

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Academic Art: smooth, glossy surfaces and idealised figures, usually from myth, the Bible or history; Realism shows ordinary people and Impressionism visible, broken strokes.

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (7 November 1828 – 17 January 1886) was a French painter. Wikipedia

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“Portrait of Platon Chikhachov”, 1864
“Young Saint John the Baptist”, 1860