Eugene Lachaise
1857–1925 (age 68)
Biography
Eugene Lachaise (1857–1925) was a French painter who worked during the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His artistic career spanned a period of significant innovation and change within French painting and the visual arts.
Lachaise's contributions to French artistic life placed him among the cultural figures of his era. His interment at Père Lachaise Cemetery, named after the confessor of Louis XIV, reflects the cemetery's role as a repository for French artists and cultural figures.