Paul Frenzeny: Empathy for 19th Century America
Art that tells real stories of people and their times.
In 1873 two adventurous artists from France, Paul Frenzeny (1840–1902) and Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) were commissioned by Harper's Weekly to record the ‘vanishing American frontier’ as it appeared …
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