Scene from the Harem by Fernand Cormon

File: Fernand Cormon 001. jpg | Fernand Cormon, Murder in the Seraglio, 1872

He was born in Paris and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris.

In 1913, with his friends Pinchus Kremegne ( 1890 – 1981 ) and Michel Kikoine ( 1892 – 1968 ), he emigrated to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon.

After Bonnat took a new job, Henri moved to the studio of Fernand Cormon in 1882 and studied for a further five years and established the group of friends he kept for the rest of his life.

Financially independent, Picabia studied under Fernand Cormon and others at the École des Arts Decoratifs in the late 1890s.

Fernand Cormon took him into his academy at 104 boulevard de Clichy, where Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec had also studied.

Fernand Cormon, the well known tutor of Van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec.

Fernand Cormon | Fernand-Anne Piestre Cormon's painting titled Cain flying before Jehovah's Curse, c. 1880, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris.