Also in that year, his mother died, an upsetting event but one which made reconciliation with his wife possible | He sold the empty nest at Jas de Bouffan and rented a place on Rue Boulegon, where he built a studio |
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Gowing, Lawrence; ; Krumrine, Mary Louise; Lewis, Mary Tompkins; ; Rewald, John 1988 | Financial need prompted Hortense's return to Provence but in separate living quarters |
The Museum of Modern Art | He stayed there for six years, though in the last two years he was a day scholar |
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On the whole the various classifications tend to converge | He continued to submit works to the Salon until 1882 |
In 1901 he bought some land along the Chemin des Lauves, an isolated road on some high ground at Aix, and commissioned a studio to be built there now open to the public.
15He concentrated on a few subjects and was equally proficient in each of these genres: , portraits, landscapes and studies of bathers | He wanted to see and sense the objects he was painting, rather than think about them |
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He was declared a draft dodger in January 1871, but the war ended the next month, in February, and the couple moved back to Paris, in the summer of 1871 | On 22 February, he was baptized in the , with his grandmother and uncle Louis as godparents, and became a devout Catholic later in life |