Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (1817-1892) was a French painter.
Born in Toulouse in Haute-Garonne, Castan quickly turns to the drawing, and follows the teaching of Drolling in Paris.
He is then a pupil of neoclassical painter François Pascal Simon Gérard (1770-1837), and begins in the Salon of French Artists in 1868.
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