Brunel De Neuville "kittens With A Tortoise"

Alfred Arthur Brunel-Neuville (or Brunel de Neuville), born in Passy on December 8, 1852 and died in Sèvres on February 5, 1941, is a French genre painter, author of still lifes and paintings of animals, notably cats. He was a pupil of Léon Brunel. In 1909, he exhibited Young Cats and Peaches and Grapes in Nîmes. He then lived at 35, rue de Meudon in Billancourt. In 1912, he presented Raisins et pommes at the Salon de Dijon. He taught painting to his daughter Marie Yvonne Laur, known as Yo Laur, who specialized in animal painting.