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Street Child by Fernand Pelez

Street Child

Fernand Pelez · 1880

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DETAILS
Artist
Fernand Pelez
Date
1880
Location
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
ART MOVEMENTS
Naturalism
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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.

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