Ernest Laurent

Laurent was a neo-impressionist artist whose main influences were his instructor Ernest Hébert and his friend Georges Seurat.

Laurent took second prize in the Prix de Rome in 1889 and in 1890, Laurent arrived in Rome, where Hébert remained Director of the Académie de France.

The work he returned to Paris from Assisi was noted for its religious themes.

This aspect of his life ran counter to Seurat's materialism and the two parted ways.

Laurent is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.