Painting ID:: 21100
The Student (mk06) 2' 1 3/4'' x 1' 9 1/4''(65.2 x 54.2 cm)Gift of Paul Gachet,1951 RF 1951-41
Francisco Oller y Cestero San Juan,Puerto Rico 1833-Santurce 1917
Puerto Rican painter. He studied from 1851 to 1853 at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid under Federico de Madrazo y Kentz and in Paris from 1858 to 1863 under Thomas Couture and Charles Gleyre at the Ecole Imperiale et Speciale de Dessin and at the Academie Suisse. There he met Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne and Armand Guillaumin, who together with Couture and the work of Courbet influenced his work towards Realism and Impressionism. The Student (mk06) 2' 1 3/4'' x 1' 9 1/4''(65.2 x 54.2 cm)Gift of Paul Gachet,1951 RF 1951-41
