Possible Clues:

• Painter, Eduard
• Contemporary of Monet
• He painted beings, terrestrial and otherwise
• Arty friend of Zola
• “The Railway” painter
• Painter referenced by the Mickalene Thomas work 'Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires'
• Artist Édouard
• "The Fifer" painter
• Artistic pal of Degas
• “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” painter