Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau - Artist Info

About Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau

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Paul Charles Chocarne Moreau
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    Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau, French 1855 - 1931

    Chocarne-Moreau, a native of Dijon, was to spend nearly all his life in Paris. A student at the Ecole des Beaux-arts under William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury, he began exhibiting at the annual Paris Salon in 1882. The artist was awarded a medal at the Universal Exposition of 1889 in Paris, a Second Class medal at the Salon of 1900, and made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1906.

    Frederick Dolman, in the Strand Magazine of 1903, gives an excellent analysis of the appeal of this painter: "The leading comedian in the art of the Salon is, I consider, M. Chocarne-Moreau, whose brush is responsible for most of the smiles with which the mass of visitors e...

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