Maurice Chabas - Artist Info

About Maurice Chabas

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    MAURICE CHABAS (1862-1947)

    Maurice Chabas and his brother, Paul Chabas trained in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) and Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) at the Academie Julian.

    He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais, the Salon National des Beaux-Arts and at the Salon de la Rose Croix.

    Chabas was successful as a painter of historical subjects, as a portraitist, and he also created murals for the Mairie of the 14th Arrondissement in Paris, the Mairie of Vincennes, the Petit Palais and four large frescoes, The Art of Silk, for the Lyon-Perrache station in Lyon.

    Influenced by the writings of Christian mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Chabas searched for con...

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