born April 20, 1840, Bordeaux, Fr.
died July 6, 1916, Paris
French painter, lithographer, and etcher.
He studied under Jean-Léon Gérome and learned lithography under Henri Fantin-Latour . He came to be associated with the Symbolist painters. His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him admiration as a colourist from Henri Matisse and other painters. His prints (nearly 200 in all), which explore fantastic, often macabre themes, foreshadowed Surrealism and Dada .
Odilon Redon, self-portrait, 1904; in a private collection.
Archives Photographiques, Paris