Jean-Charles Cazin, French (1841-1901)

He is an intriguing and influential artist of the late 19th-century, French Realist movement. His style defies easy classification among the artistic currents of his day and was atypical compared to his famous contemporaries. Similar to his friend and contemporary Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), Cazin was of the same generation as the Impressionists yet he followed his own realist interpretation of nature. While mainly a landscape artist, Cazin's early works focus on genre studies and interior scenes as well. However, it is as an innovative landscape artist that he acquired world renown.

The son of a doctor, Cazin was born in Samer in the northern Pas-de-Cal...