Adolphe Jourdan (French,1825~1889) Jourdan was born in 1825 in the city of Nimes, a city in southern France. At nineteen, he began his training as a painter at the School of Fine Arts in Paris (École des Beaux-Arts), studying under Charles Francois Jalabert, a French Academic artist. Jourdan delighted audiences in Europe and in the United States with his sentimental d..