Acrylic and Marker
Signature on the back

Celebrities of Occitanie Collection

50 x 70 x 2 cm
18 x 24 x 0.8 inch.

While an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.

Widely esteemed for his writing by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust, and Wilde, Théophile started off as a painter.