Eustațiu Stoenescu: A Romanian Portraitist Celebrated in Paris & NYC Eustațiu Stoenescu (Craiova, 1884-New York City, 1957) was a Romanian painter principally known for his portraiture. His family originated from Oltenia in Romania. His father was a senator and his mother Mathilda was born in Brittany. He met the French painter Léopold Durangel in 1889 and moved to Paris in 1900, with his friend Nicolae Titulescu. Stoenescu was, early on, inspired by the work of Jean-Paul Laurens with whom he studied. His first exhibition took place in 1905 at the Salon officiel de Paris, and the same year i…