"Portrait Of A Young Woman"
Oil on panel signed lower left: "FB" Barrias obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1844. For sixty-five years, he exhibited regularly at the Salon, He was one of the most characterized and most fertile representatives of academic painting . The number of his paintings amounts to nearly 400, mostly important compositions and a large number of portraits. Gold medal in 1889. He was Knight of the Legion of Honor, of the order of Leopold of Belgium. Felix Barrias, a student of L.Cogniet at the École des Beaux Arts, was the son of the miniaturist and porcelain painter Barrias. 
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