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Known for her hauntingly surreal, dream-like portraits, Lux’s photographs feature young children digitally altered to resemble the aristocratic stiffness and formality of Old Master paintings.

Born on January 14, 1836 in Grenoble, France, he went on to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and would copy Old Masters paintings at the Louvre. Fantin-Latour’s works are in the collections of the ...