Louis Anquetin

[2] In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat's studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand Cormon, where they befriended Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh.

[3] Around 1887, Anquetin and Bernard developed a painting style that used flat regions of color and thick, black contour outlines.

This style, named cloisonnism by critic Édouard Dujardin, was inspired by both stained glass and Japanese ukiyo-e. One example of this can be seen in Avenue de Clichy: Five O’Clock in the Evening, argued by Dr. Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov as being inspiration for Van Gogh's famous Cafe Terrace at Night.

[4] He eventually fell from the public's eye after abandoning the modern movements, opting instead to study the methods of the Old Masters.