French Romantic Painter, 1754-1843
For more than a century and a quarter after his death, the French flower-painter Antoine Berjon (1754-1843) remained virtually unknown beyond his native country. Even within France his reputation did not extend much beyond Lyon, his birthplace, despite the fact that for more than 15 years of his adult life he had lived in Paris and continued throughout his life to visit Paris frequently to exhibit at the annual Salon.
