HENRI CAUCHOIS: BOUQUET OF ROSES IN A PITCHER.

Henri Cauchois (Rouen 1850 – 1911 Paris)
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right "H. Cauchois".
Dimensions with frame: 73 x 84 cm.
Dimensions without frame: 54,5 x 65 cm.

A pupil of Ferdinand Duboc and Alexandre Cabanel, Henry Cauchois specializes in still life compositions. His paintings are kept in museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Angers, Rouen, Perpignan, Louviers, the Ingres Museum in Montauban. The artist participated for the first time in the Paris Salon in 1874 and sent his works to the Salon of French artists in 1881, 1890, 1898, 1904 and 1908. He also participated in the Universal Exhibition in 1900.

Bibliographie:
Benezit
André Roussard, Dictionary of painters in Montmartre, 1999
Gérald Schurr, The Little Masters of Painting
Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, Etienne Grafe, The Painters of Flowers in France, From Redouté to Redon, Editions de l'Amateur, 2003