Painting dimensions: 27 x 35 cm. Signed top right, titled bottom left. Label on the back, Paris.
This is probably a portrait of the artist's son, Marcel Caron, painted in Paris between 1898-1901.
Alphonse Caron (Liège, 1866-1917). Belgian painter, draftsman, etcher, decorator. Trained at the Academies of Liège and Antwerp with Charles Verlat. Worked as a draftsman at the Manufacture des Gobelins in Paris from 1898 to 1901. Settled in Liège in 1901. Then produced numerous panels and theatre sets and also worked for the Universal Exhibition in Brussels in 1910. Acquired a small house in Logne where he stayed to paint. Biblio: Piron.
A retrospective "The Liège School of Landscape" took place in 2019 at the Château Fort de Logne Museum with the painters: Alphonse Caron, José Wolff, Richard Heintz, Joseph Lagasse, Fernand Ponthier, René Schepers, Joseph Couture, Henri Théâtre.