In his later career, he won a succession of awards for loosely-painted Impressionist views.
Carpentier
A fellow-student of Emile Claus, he painted scenes from the Vendée uprising, then took to history painting at the end of the 19th century.
The 1890s saw an unexpected number of paintings of this civil war. Were they Republican or Royalist statements?
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