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LOUIS GUSTAVE RICARD (1823-1873)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 286 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS GUSTAVE See also:RICARD (1823-1873)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Marseilles in 1823, and studied first under See also:Auber in his native See also:town, and subsequently under Coignet in See also:Paris . The formation of his masterly, distinguished See also:style in See also:portraiture was, however, due rather to ten years' intelligent copying of the old masters at the Louvre and at the See also:Italian galleries, than to any school training . He was a See also:master of technique, and his portraits—about two See also:hundred—reveal an extra-See also:ordinary insight into the See also:character of his sitters . Nevertheless, for some See also:time after his See also:death his name was almost forgotten by the public, and it is only of quite See also:recent years that he has been conceded the position among the leading masters of the See also:modern French school which is his due . A portrait of himself, and one of See also:Alfred de See also:Musset, are at the Luxembourg See also:Gallery . Among his best known See also:works are the portrait of his See also:mother, and those of the painters See also:Fromentin, Heilbuth and See also:Chaplin . See Gustave See also:Ricard, by Camille Mauclair (Paris, Librairie de fart) .

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