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Artist Marie Charlot was actually a fictional artist created by Collectors Corner Inc., an art seller who hired artists to create Victorian-style oil paintings. Marie Charlot oil paintings were in fact created by Far Eastern painters and sold under the invented name because buyers preferred pieces by English, French or American artists. The Marie Charlot name was signed on Collectors Corner pieces from 1960 to 1970.
Marie Charlot oil paintings were inspired by examples of French or Victorian art that the painters viewed; they then created similar pieces in the same style. The whimsical, well-made vintage pieces are still popular and eagerly collected