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2 unusual facts about Eugène Secrétan


Eugène Secrétan

A French-American bidding war during the auction on L'Angelus, a work by the popular French painter Jean-François Millet of the Barbizon school, forced the price up to a record-breaking amount of 553,000 francs by Antonin Proust, who was bidding for the Louvre.

Eugène Secrétan, or M.E. Secrétan (1836, Saulx – 1899, Dives-sur-Mer), was a French industrialist and art collector.



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