FRENCH LANGUAGE The Petit Palais is devoting a retrospective to Albert Edelfelt, a pioneer of Finnish painting whose international reputation made him a reference for his compatriots. Trained in the workshops of Paris, he was "the most Parisian of the Finns and the most Finnish of the Parisians", and acquired an important notoriety thanks to his famous portrait of Louis Pasteur. This first monograph devoted to the artist allows us to discover or rediscover the diversity of Edelfelt's work, which ranges from history paintings, open air with its impressionist influence, scenes of
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