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  • Among the young artists who congregated at the French Academy in Rome—including the portraitist Léon Bonnat, the symbolist painter Gustave Moreau and the printmaker Joseph Tourny—Rembrandt was a revered symbol of artistic individualism, due in part to his outsider status in the canons of art history as taught at the École des Beaux-Arts.

    One Master Mines Another Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • Bonnat offered a red tin filled with "Grand Cru" dominos, while Francois Pralus , another maitre chocolatier, featured a Pyramide des Tropiques, a stack of 10 square bars from Papua New Guinea to Madagascar.

    Chocolate's Dark Cult Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • Much like the Bonnat quote when explaining painting, "Make it as like as you can, then make it more like."

    Academy of Realist Art James Gurney 2009

  • The detail of the final painting shows a principle Krøyer would have learned from Bonnat, namely to be careful not to violate the lights.

    Archive 2008-03-01 James Gurney 2008

  • Indeed, the author notes, So, if you buy Noka's 48-piece Vintages Encore box for $100, you're getting about the same amount of chocolate you would have gotten by buying one 100-gram Bonnat bar at a retail price of $7.50.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • X., the minister of state; M.T., the famous banker who enjoyed bacchanalian orgies in a secret room of his country estate; the painter Bonnat, the composer Massenet, the poet Coppee, diplomats, artists, generals, scientists, and judges -- "a whole body of judges."

    On the Sometimes Fatal Consequences of Entering Into Madame Steinheil's Bedchamber 2005

  • “There is a remarkable Bonnat, two excellent things by Carolus Duran, an admirable Puvis de Chavannes, a very new and astonishing Roll, an exquisite Gervex, and many others, by Beraud, Cazin, Duez — in short, a heap of good things.”

    Strong as Death 2003

  • He was hardly out of his studentship at the time -- he was a pupil of Bonnat -- and his work was

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • The scattered studies in the atelier first of all displayed the influence of his first master, of solid and simple Bonnat.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • In this way we halted before the "Martyrdom of Saint Denis," by Bonnat, the two "Adorations," by Bouguereau, a landscape of Bernier's, some other landscapes, sea pieces, and portraits.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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