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Gaston La Touche, a French painter and printmaker, was born in
Saint-Cloud in 1854. A self-taught artist, he was from childhood
determined to be a painter and was supported in this ambition by his
well-to-do parents. His first paintings (1880s) were domestic
scenes in the 17th century Dutch style. They were vigorous, harsh
and somber and met with no success; he burnt most of them in 1891.
In
the late 1880s, the influence of his friend Felix Bracquemond prompted
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