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Jean Charles Cazin

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CAZIN, JEAN CHARLES (184o-1901), French land scape-painter, son of a well-known doctor, F. J. Cazin (1788 1864), was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. After studying in France, he went to England and was strongly influenced by the pre-Raphaelite movement. His chief earlier pictures have a religious interest; such are "The Flight into Egypt" (1877) and "Hagar and Ishmael" (188o, Luxembourg). Later, his combina tion of luminous landscape with figure-subjects ("Souvenir de fete," 1881; "Journee faite," 1888) gave him a wide repute and made him the leader of a new school of idealistic subject-painting in France. His wife, Marie Cazin, who was his pupil, was also a well-known artist and sculptor.

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