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Very nice work by Chocarne-Moreau
Colorful image of two altar boys, in a church interior, offering a bowl of milk to a cat
Very entertaining scene
Signed lo Chocarne-Moreau
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Period 1920-1930
Dimensions: 56 x 67 cm
Framed in a wooden frame with glass plate
Paul Chocarne-Moreau, born Paul Charles Chocarne (Dijon, 31 October 1855 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 5 May 1930), was a French painter.
His father was a painting teacher and he was the nephew of Fathers Bernard Chocarne and Victor Chocarne, as well as the nephew of the sculptors Mathurin, Hyppolyte and Auguste Moreau. Paul Chocarne went to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was successively the pupil of Tony Robert-Fleury and William Bouguereau. He began at the Salon of French Artists in 1882 and exhibited there quite regularly from that year onwards under the name Paul Chocarne-Moreau. In 1906 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Chocarne-Moreau specialized in genre painting. The protagonists in his artworks are generally funny boys from popular backgrounds: young apprentice pastry chefs, chimney sweeps, altar boys, and schoolchildren. Witness to his time, he painted works such as On the Barricades which he exhibited at the Salon of 1909. He could be considered a precursor of Norman Rockwell.
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