Edouard Leon Cortes
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Edouard Cortes (1882-1969) was a French impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He was born on August 8, 1882 in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east of Paris, France. His father, Antonio Cortes, had been a painter for the Spanish Royal Court. At the age of seventeen, Edouard began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
