Eugène Dauphin

Eugène-Baptiste Émile Marie Dauphin (30 November 1857, in Toulon – 1930, in Paris) was a French marine artist and landscape painter.

His father, Étienne Dauphin, was an entrepreneur who developed properties along the Boulevard de Strasbourg in Toulon.

He attended the workshops of the "Atelier des Beaux-Arts de Toulon", where he studied with Vincent Courdouan.

[1] In 1900, he was one of numerous painters chosen to decorate the restaurant at the Gare de Lyon (now known as Le Train Bleu), creating a panel in the main hall, depicting Toulon.

[3] Dauphin provided one, called Le Vaisseau Fantôme (The Ghost Ship), based on The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner.