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2 unusual facts about Léon Bonnat


Herbert Welsh

In May 1873, he sailed to Paris to study in the studio of Léon Bonnat, of Paris.

Léon Bonnat

Bonnat died on 8 September 1922 at Monchy-Saint-Éloi; he never married, and lived for much of his life with his mother and sister in the Place Vintimille.


Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

The painting shows the influences of his tutors in France, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat, and of Diego Velázquez, the Spanish artist.


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