émile Louis Thivier “the Sweet Bill”

Émile Louis Thivier "Le billet Doux" oil on canvas signed lower right stamp of the 1922 sale on the back format with the frame 63cm x 55cm...Émile Louis Thivier, born in Paris on October 5, 1858 and died in Luçay-le -Male, at the Château des Cognées, June 22, 1922 is a French painter and draftsman. Student of Lehmann, Laugée, and Dagnan-Bouveret, he also took courses at the Académie Julian. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français. from 1880 to his death in 1922. First married in 1880 to Claire-Émilie Hulot (1860-1900), he married his second wife, in 1901, Marie-Geneviève Paing (1878-1975), native of Caen, also a painter Part of the workshop funds of Émile Thivier and Marie Paing was donated by his daughter Françoise Thivier (1905-2003) to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Indre, in Châteauroux.