Joseph Félix Bouchor (1853-1937) (attr. To), View Of Interior Courtyard Of Oriental Palace, Oil

Joseph Félix Bouchor (1853-1937) (attr. to)
View of interior courtyard of Oriental palace
Oil on panel
46 x 38 cm
Signed lower right: J?F Bouchor?
Good general condition - some rubbing

Student at the Paris School of Fine Arts, Joseph Félix Bouchor, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français.
He exhibited at the National and Colonial Exhibition in Rouen in 1896. During the First World War, too old to go to the front and released from all military obligations, he was commissioned by the Army Museum to bring back views of the fields of war. battle. He is the author of the first works of the war entered into the Army Museum, relating to the arrival at the Invalid of the first emblems taken from the enemy, in October 1914.
After the war, he made a long trip to Egypt, in Algeria and Morocco and approached Orientalist painters. He thus illustrated several books, including Le Maroc by the Tharaud brothers and Marrakech dans les palmes by André Chevrillon. Funds of his paintings are kept at the Musée du Noyonnais in Noyon (orientalist paintings) and at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Vannes (paintings dedicated to Brittany), bequeathed by the painter to these towns in 1936, as well as at the town hall of Freneuse (Norman works). One of his Moroccan paintings is kept in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. Several works relating to the First World War are kept at the National Museum of Franco-American Cooperation in Blérancourt, as well as sixteen paintings at the Army Museum in Paris7.
The Elbeuf museum will dedicate a retrospective exhibition to him during the summer of 2015.