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Antonin Proust
Antonin Proust (15 March 183220 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician.
Antonin Proust was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. In 1864 he founded an anti-imperial journal, "La Semaine hebdomadaire" which appeared in Brussels. He was war correspondent for "Le Temps" in the early days of the Franco-German War, but after Sedan he returned to Paris, where he became secretary to Gambetta and superintended the refugees in Paris.
He entered the Chamber as deputy for
the Barbizon school, forced the price up to a record-breaking amount of 553,000 francs by Antonin Proust, who was bidding for the Louvre. Proust only had 180,000 francs however, and after spending a day trying to save the work for France, he called James F. Sutton of the American Art Association to buy it from him for 552,000. The provenance of the work reflects that Secretan owned the painting from the time it was first shown in 1865, and the American Art Association from 1889.
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