Still flive with flowers - Maurice BOMPARD (1857-1936)

Large oval still life with flowers by Maurice BOMPARD
BOMPARD Maurice

Born in 1857 in Rodez (Aveyron). Died in 1936 in Rodez.
19th-20th centuries.
French.

Genre, typical scenes, landscapes, still lifes, flowers and orientalist.

He was the student of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the School of Arts of Paris, he’d exhibited at the Salon since 1878, was at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, at the colonial exhibition of Marseille in 1906. He was a member of the orientalist French painters. He exhibited his work in Alger. He also got a sholarship in 1882 to travel around Germany, Italy, Tunisia and Spain. Between 1890 and 1900 he settled in Biskra where he painted real life.

BIBLIOGR. : Lynne Thornton : Les Orientalistes, peintres voya¬geurs, ACR Édition, Paris, 1994.

MUSEUMS : MARSEILLE (Mus. des Beaux-Arts) : Les Débuts à l'atelier - La Favorite - Scène de harem - MULHOUSE : La Basilique Saint-Marc, Venise - PARIS (Mus. Nat. d'Art Mod.) : Composition reli¬gieuse - LE PUY-EN-VELAY : Les Tripiers de la Calle délia Madona, Venise - TOURCOING : Souvenir de Biskra.