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and A. Fauré. In 1859 he started exhibiting at the

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. Like his father, Émile Henri Brunner-Lacoste painted still lifes of flowers ("

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") and fruit. Brunne-Lacoste also contributed with the illustrations to Aesopian Fables by

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, such as those of "

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". He was also a decorative painter who worked on the Sub-Prefecture in Sceaux and on the

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* Michael Bryan: "''Dictionary of painters and engravers''", London George Bell & Sons, 1886, p. 192 * Benezit Dictionary Of Artists, Grund, 2006, V. 2, p. 1389. 1838 births 1881 deaths Painters from Paris 19th-century French male artists 19th-century French painters French still life painters {{France-painter-19thC-stub