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Louis Émile ADAN
(Paris, 1839-Paris, 1937)

A preaching in the church of Bocca della verita, in Rome

Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
97 x 130 cm
1867

Exhibitions:
- Salon of Paris of 1867 under the number 5
- Salon of Arras of 1868 under the number 1
- Salon of Amiens (sticker on the reverse of the frame)

Son of the painter Hippolyte Benjamin Adan (1797-1876), a pupil of Delaroche, and of Émilie Delarémanichère (1813-1885), Louis Émile ADAN was born in Paris on March 26, 1839.

He began his art studies in the 1850s and then returned to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of François Picot in the early 1850s and of Alexandre Cabanel probably from 1864 or soon after.

Adan made his first shipment to the Paris Salon in 1863. He remained registered as a Cabanel pupil in the booklets until 1886. As CH Stranahan recounts in his History of French Painting: “No fewer than 112 exhibitors from the 1886 Salon signed 'Élève de Cabanel'.

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