TILLOT, Charles Victor
(b. 1825, Rouen, d. 1895, Rouen)

Still-Life with Flowers

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Oil on canvas, 82 x 65 cm
Private collection

Charles Tillot was a landscape and flower painter who lived on the skirts of the Barbizon woods. He was recruited by Degas to participate in the second Impressionist exhibition. However, his delicate floral still-lifes, which recall Fantin-Latour, cannot be described as Impressionist.