Gaston La Touche: Reading by a Window

Gaston La Touche (1854-1913) was a French painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. In his youth he frequented the same Paris cafés as the Impressionists and is reputed to have received advice from Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. As a mature artist, he broke with his realist beginnings to paint in a harmonious decorative style that reflects the influence of the Rococo painters of the 18th century. For his wealthy clients, such scenes may have evoked nostalgia for the ancien régime of pre-Revolutionary France. La Touche joined Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in breaking with the official salons to become a member of the rival Société nationale des Beaux-Arts.

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HC-1434: card size 7" x 5" (178mm x 127mm)