Who painted “A Studio at Les Batignolles”?

“A Studio at Les Batignolles” was painted by Henri Fantin-Latour in 1870. Where to see it: Musée d'Orsay.

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Realism: Academic art paints the same skill on idealised subjects; Impressionism keeps the modern subjects but breaks the paint into light, quick strokes.

Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers. Wikipedia

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More by Henri Fantin-Latour

“Homage to Delacroix”, 1864
“Un coin de table”, 1872
“The Reading”, 1877
“Around the Piano”, 1885
“A Basket of Roses”, 1885
“Still Life: Roses in a Glass Vase”, 1879
“The Reading”, 1870
“The Reader”, 1861