Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929)Consolatrix Afflictorum
Oil on canvas
Private collection
Dagnan pursued the academic mastery of finely drawn figure compositions
He made his reputation with large figure paintings based on scenes from real life in rural France.
It would appear that Dagnan achieved his effect of lifelike immediacy with the help of photographs, a common practice in nineteenth-century painting but one that artists did not always admit.
He often turned to religious subjects, treating them as genre scenes
Madonna and Child was a theme which he painted on a number of occasions. He stressed the beauty of maternity.
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