French painter. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon of 1846. From 1851 he was also an art critic. He bought a house in Barbizon in 1860 and studied with Millet and Théodore Rousseau. He became friend of Degas and the Rouart brothers, and collected Japanese prints. Between 1876 and 1886 he exhibited at all the Impressionist exhibitions except the 1st and the 7th, mainly landscapes and sea scenes in the style of the Barbizon school. //