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Raphaël Collin (1850 - 1916) was born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic...

Raphaël Collin (1850 - 1916) was born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and in later life a professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He is principally known for the links he created between French and Japanese art, in both painting and ceramics. Collin studied at the school of Saint-Louis, then went to Verdun where he was at school with Jules Bastien-Lepage; they became close friends. Collin then went to Paris and studied in the atelier of Bouguereau and then joined Lepage at Alexandre Cabanel’s atelier where they both worked alongside Fernand Cormon, Aimé Morot and Benjamin Constant. Collin painted still-lives, nudes, portraits and genre pieces, and preferred to render his subjects en plein air with a clear and luminous palette. Around 1873 he began successfully exhibiting at the Salon. He won a number of prizes that helped launch his career, and before long he was receiving increasingly prestigious commissions to paint large scale murals in major public buildings around Paris, including some of the most prominent cultural centers of Paris: the Hôtel de Ville, the Théatre de l'éon, and the Opéra-Comique. He also provided designs for decorative