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"I was brought up in the cult of Velaizquez. As a youngster I was in Madrid. On the brilliant days that one sees only in Spain, my father sometimes brought me to the Prado where we lingered in the Spanish rooms. I always left with a feeling of profound admiration for Velazquez." - Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat
Born in France near the Spanish border, Bonnat was raised and studied art in Spain before he continued his schooling first in Paris and then Italy. He worked in the HISTORY PAINTING mode, as did his friend and traveling companion-to Egypt (for the opening of the Suez Canal), the Sinai, Palestine, Turkey, and Greece-GEROME. Bonnat's paintings, while also in the ACADEMIC mode, probe more deeply into emotional states than do those of Gerome. Job (1880) shows with a disturbing degree of exactitude the emaciated body of an old man. For his painting The Crucifixion ( 1874), as a student (who bribed a guard to let him see the model) wrote home, " ... standing up against the wall was the large cross with the subject [corpse] crucified on it, a horrid sight; but it shows how these French artists believe in truth." The student was WEIR, one of more than 60 Americans who studied with Bonnat. EAKINS was another, and it was probably Bonnat who encouraged Eakins to visit Spain. Bonnat was renowned for history and religious subjects, and as a portraitist. Though he first taught independently, he was later given a position at the ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS.
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