Journalist and art critic before becoming a diplomat, Pasteur's son became Edelfelt's friend after writing a laudatory article on his painting Le Convoy d'un enfant, which won a medal at the Salon in 1880. Immortalized in 1881 by Edelfelt, it was he who commissioned the famous portrait of his father.
Journalist and art critic before becoming a diplomat, Pasteur's son became Edelfelt's friend after writing a laudatory article on his painting Le Convoy d'un enfant, which won a medal at the Salon in 1880. Immortalized in 1881 by Edelfelt, it was he who commissioned the famous portrait of his father.
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