Eugène Faure

A young woman in a long black dress, ca. 1878

Eugène Faure, a French painter of allegories, mythological subjects, and portraits, was born at Seyssinet, near Grenoble, in 1822. He studied under David d'Angers and Rude, and his first work, a landscape, now in the Grenoble Museum, appeared at the Salon in 1847. He died in Paris in 1879. The following are his chief works:

• Dreams of Youth. 1857.
• First Steps in Love. 1861.
• Confidence. 1863.
• Eve. 1864.
• La Source. 1878.

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This article incorporates text from the article "FAURE, Eugène" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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