French painter, lithographer and designer. Born at Étrépagny (Eure). Went to Paris 1880 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts first under Bonnat, then under Cormon; met Lautrec, Bernard, van Gogh. Influenced by Delacroix and Michaelangelo, then in turn by Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. Created Cloisonnisme with Bernard in 1887 under the influence of stained glass, ...