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Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929), Woman From Brittany, 1886, French. Oil on canvas. 36.9 x 28 cm. Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill (http://www.artic.edu); Mr and Mrs Potter Palmer Collection; photograph © 2002, The Art Institute of Chicago.

While his contemporaries were rebelling against the constrictions of academia, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929) was absorbing its lessons like a piece of unprimed canvas: he studied eight years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, most of them in the atelier of Jean-Leon Gerome. And if his training was thoroughly academic, so would be his work throughout his life. Unlike the Impressionists—Post- and Neo- included—among them Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Gauguin, and Seurat, Dagnan-Bouveret seems never to have been even tempted to question the official canons laid down by the Salon. Officialdom rewarded him. In 1875, only a year after the Impressionists—prompted by their frustration . . . [Full Text of this Article]