Jacques-Émile Blanche
(1861 - 1942)
 

Jacques-Émile Blanche was a French artist, largely self-taught, who became a successful portrait painter, working in London and Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Émile_Blanche

Portrait de Claude Debussy
1903
Oil on canvas
34 x 41 cm
Collections de la Ville de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

(Achille) Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This portrait was painted in the garden of the painter's house in Auteuil in 1903. The session was interrupted by a passing downpour which gave the composer this "air of white cheese tired by the nights" but which inspired the third piece of the “Prints for the piano”: “Gardens in the rain”.