Édouard Béliard

He was born in Paris as the son of an architect, and began his professional career as a legal assistant and secretary to Alphonse Esquiros.

[1] Later, he took painting lessons with Léon Cogniet and Ernest Hébert, where he came under the influence of Jean-Baptiste Corot.

After his return to Paris, he became associated with the group of young Impressionists who gathered around Edgar Degas and became a close friend of Camille Pissarro, who he met at the Café Guerbois.

In 1874, he helped prepare for the first major Impressionist exhibition, where he held a retrospective of his works.

He also participated in their second exhibition,[2] focusing on landscapes but, as the years progressed, he turned away from pure Impressionism and introduced more elements of Realism into his work.