'The Fountain of Youth' a forgotten star of the 1845 salon: William Haussoullier's masterpiece, 'The Fountain of Youth', was eulogised by Baudelaire in his review of the 1845 Salon but then disappeared into obscurity in England, Graham Reynolds--who bought it for four guineas in 1937--traces the history of its subject and decribes the impact the painting made in the 1840s

To start on an autobiographical note: in 1937 I was a newly appointed assistant keeper in the Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. One [...]