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Who painted “Old man in front of children's graves”?

“Old man in front of children's graves” was painted by Osman Hamdi Bey in 1903. Where to see it: Musée d'Orsay.

Old man in front of children's graves — Osman Hamdi Bey

Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first archaeologist and first museologist and he is regarded as the founding father of museology, archaeology, fine arts education and museum curator's professions in Turkey. Wikipedia

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