Eugène Faure, a French painter of allegories, mythological subjects, and portraits, was born at Seyssinet, near Grenoble, in 1822. He studied under David d'Angers and Rude, and his first work, a landscape, now in the Grenoble Museum, appeared at the Salon in 1847. He died in Paris in 1879. The following are his chief works:
- Dreams of Youth. 1857.
- First Steps in Love. 1861.
- Confidence. 1863.
- Eve. 1864.
- La Source. 1878.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Faure, Eugène". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.