Biography from: Christie's
Born in Paris into a Languedoc family, Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) trained in Toulouse at the local Academie before moving to Paris in 1866.
He enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts and completed his training under the academic master Alexandre Cabanel.
His studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War and the young artist never resumed his formal training.
Instead, in the early 1870s he travelled to Spain, and fell under the spell of the Mudejar architecture of Andalucia.
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