French painter, born on the 7th of January 1852, in Paris. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts as a pupil of Gérôme, and in 1876 won a second Grand Prix de Rome. In the following year his work made its first appearance in the Salon, being represented by two mythological subjects, Orpheus and the Bacchantes and Bacchus, Child. M. Dagnan-Bouveret attained high rank in the contemporary French school, his mastery of technique and color being of the first order. Primarily a genre painter, his subjects are always in admirable taste. The Parental Blessing, in a Russian collection, and The Conscripts, in the state collections of France, are the most highly regarded of his later achievements. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor, December 31, 1891.
