Oil Painting On Canvas "louis Edouard Fournier"

Oil painting on canvas "Louis Edouard Fournier"
Romantic scene set in Venice, author Louis Edouard Fournier 1857-1917 French painter and illustrator.
Fournier studied with Alexandre Cabanel, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. In 1881 he won first prize in the prestigious Prix de Rome with a painting with the subject of Achilles' anger appeased by Minerva. He also participated in the Paris Salon and in 1900 received a medal and the Legion of Honour. He also received prizes at the Salon of 1889 and the Exposition Universelle of 1890