Portret van Alexander II, tsaar van Rusland
Pierre Jean Edmond Castan
1827 - 1892
Medium
steel engraving
Dimensions
154; 249
About this artwork
height 249 mm x width 154 mm
About the Artist
Pierre Jean Edmond Castan · 1817–1892
Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (1817–1892) was a French Academic painter and engraver who specialized in genre scenes depicting the daily lives of working families in nineteenth-century France. Born in Toulouse in 1817, Castan studied under prominent academic masters including Michel Martin Drolling and François Gérard before establishing himself in Paris, where he exhibited regularly at the Salon from...