Artist
Louis Antoine Collas
French, 1775–1856
Louis Antoine Collas was a French Romanticism painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors. Louis Antoine Collas was born in Bordeaux.
Louis Antoine Collas (Bordeaux, 1775 - Bordeaux, 1856) was a portrait and miniature painter from France. Collas's work primarily consisted of oil paintings and miniature water colors.
Collas moved to America in the 1810s. Collas was one of the most influential and important French miniature painters that came to America and New Orleans. He exhibited in the Paris Salon as well as several Academies of Fine Arts in America. Although originally from France, Collas is considered an American artist.
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