"Louis Francois Lenfant Of Metz"
François Louis Lanfant de Metz 1814-1892 Name of a pipe!!!! Oil on panel signed lower right Arriving in Paris at the age of 15, he first drew original compositions for wallpaper merchants. Then he was admitted to the studio of Ary Scheiffer, a history, genre and portrait painter. In 1842, he was hired as a draftsman by a Swiss naturalist. He had a studio in Paris, Boulevard des Italiens and trained a number of students. 1868 was a turning point in his life as an artist: during a trip to Trouville with Courbet, he met old actor friends and met the musician Louis Tessier who became his friend. He decided not to return to Paris. He ended up settling in Le Havre. 
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