The society portraitist whose Paris teaching studio trained a generation that outgrew him — Toulouse-Lautrec endured his corrections, and Edvard Munch arrived on a state scholarship in 1889 to draw under his eye.
Taught · 1889–1890
Munch's Norwegian state scholarship of 1889 came with a condition: formal training. He enrolled in Léon Bonnat's Paris teaching studio that autumn and drew from the model there through the winter, chafing against corrections from a teacher whose polished salon portraiture stood for everything his own painting was leaving behind.
Taught · 1882
Lautrec entered Bonnat's atelier in 1882, his first formal Paris training; when Bonnat closed the studio months later, the students — Lautrec among them — moved on to Fernand Cormon's.
Taught · 1889–1890
Munch's Norwegian state scholarship of 1889 came with a condition: formal training. He enrolled in Léon Bonnat's Paris teaching studio that autumn and drew from the model there through the winter, chafing against corrections from a teacher whose polished salon portraiture stood for everything his own painting was leaving behind.
Taught · 1882
Lautrec entered Bonnat's atelier in 1882, his first formal Paris training; when Bonnat closed the studio months later, the students — Lautrec among them — moved on to Fernand Cormon's.