André Cholet - A Little Milkmaid From The Bordeaux Area (circa 1840)

André CHOLET Bassanne (Gironde), 1807 - ? A Little Milkmaid from the Bordeaux Region (circa 1840) Oil on canvas 40 x 32 cm (52 x 45 cm with frame) Signed lower right "André Cholet" Probably exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1841 ("A Little Milkmaid") Beautiful 19th-century giltwood frame. André Cholet was a painter from southwestern France. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1830 and studied under the painter Thomas. He exhibited portraits and small genre scenes of the countryside at the Paris Salon between 1833 and 1849. In 1841, he exhibited two paintings: "A Harvester from the Bordeaux Region" (Museum of Art and History of Melun) and "A Little Milkmaid," a work of similar subject and style, which is probably our painting.