Laureano Barrau

Laureano Barrau Buñol (1863, Barcelona – 21 October 1957, Santa Eulària des Riu[1]) was a Spanish impressionist painter.

At 20, Barrau went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie des Beaux-Arts where Gerome was his tutor.

He earned medals in the principal cities in Europe and today his paintings hang in museums in Spain, Paris, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro.

He settled with his wife in the town of Santa Eulalia del Rio, where he painted what is considered his best work.

Réalisation cover for French magazine Figaro Illustré August 1897 In 1963, Barrau's wife opened a museum which houses approximately two hundred of his paintings.