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Place of Birth: Decize, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Hector Hanoteau
- Hector Charles Auguste Octave Constance Hanoteau (25 May 1823 – 7 April 1890) was a French landscape painter born at Decize in Nièvre.
- At the École des Beaux-Arts, he was a pupil of Gignoux, and devoted himself chiefly to landscapes, characterized by sturdy realism and skillful color.
- He famous works are The Village Pond, The Frogs, and The Water Lilies, all of which are in the Musée d'Orsay.
- He is represented also in several French provisional museums.
- He received a first-class medal at the Paris Exposition of 1889 and the cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1870.
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