Artists

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His portrait groups, arranged somewhat after the manner of the Dutch masters, are as interesting from their subjects as they are from the artistic point of view. Hommage à Delacroix showed portraits of Whistler and Legros, Baudelaire, Champfleury and himself; Un Atelier à Batignolles gave portraits of Monet, Manet, Zola and Renoir, and is now in the Luxembourg; Un Coin de table presented Verlaine, Rimbaud, Camille, [Sâr Joséphin] Péladan [EN] and others; and Autour du Piano contained portraits of Chabrier, D'Indy and other musicians. His paintings of flowers are perfect examples of the art, and form perhaps the most famous section of his work in England. In his later years he devoted much attention to lithography, which had occupied him as early as 1862, but his examples were then considered so revolutionary, with their strong lights and black shadows, that the printer refused to execute them. After L'Anniversaire in honour of Berlioz in the Salon of 1876, he regularly exhibited lithographs, some of which wore excellent examples of delicate portraiture, others being elusive and imaginative drawings illustrative of the music of Wagner (whose cause he championed in Paris as early as 1864), Berlioz, Brahms and other composers. He illustrated Adolphe Juiliens Wagner (1886) and Berlioz (1888). There are excellent collections of his lithographic work at Dresden, in the British Museum, and a practically complete set given by his widow to the Louvre. Some were also exhibited at South Kensington in 1898-1899, and at the Dutch gallery in 1904.