“ He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Ingres, Flandrin and Lamothe, and exhibited in the Salon for the first time at the age of twenty-three. In 1861 he showed “The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite,” which was purchased by the state for the Luxembourg Gallery. His first characteristic period made him a painter of the charms of women. Demimondaine would be more accurate as a description of the series of studies which he called La Femme à Paris. He fought in the Franco-German War, and, falling under suspicion as a Communist, left Paris for London. ”