The Bite of Bread: man bent forward, hands in pockets

Fernand Pelez, 1904

LOCATIONMusée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

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THE ARTIST

Fernand Pelez 1848–1913 · France

French painter who depicted society's outcasts with unflinching realism, then became a recluse after 1896.