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“The Fountain of Youth” was painted by Paul Quinsac c1887.
Quinsac was born in Bordeaux, France in 1858. He was an accomplished painter trained in the 19th century style of the French Academy that preferred classically drawn figures executed in mythological and historical genre scenes over the avant-garde experimentation of the Romantics and later Impressionists.
He studied under Jean-Leon Gerome and regularly exhibited at the Salon. In 1901 Quinsac became a professor of art and drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, and was awarded the prestigious Legion of Honor in 1908. He died in Bordeaux in 1932.
“The Fountain of Youth” was painted by Paul Quinsac c1887.
Quinsac was born in Bordeaux, France in 1858. He was an accomplished painter trained in the 19th century style of the French Academy that preferred classically drawn figures executed in mythological and historical genre scenes over the avant-garde experimentation of the Romantics and later Impressionists.
He studied under Jean-Leon Gerome and regularly exhibited at the Salon. In 1901 Quinsac became a professor of art and drawing at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, and was awarded the prestigious Legion of Honor in 1908. He died in Bordeaux in 1932.