A Pair Of Henri Cauchois Flower Paintings

A pair of oil on canvas paintings
depicting two wildflower bouquets
with poppies, daisies and cornflowers.
On its original canvas
Signed lower left H.CAUCHOIS

Eugène Henri CAUCHOIS (1850-1911)
Dimensions: H: 95 cm / W: 74 cm
unframed : H : 73 cm /L : 55 cm
Biography:
Eugène Cauchois, born in Rouen (Seine Maritime) on February 14, 1850, died in Paris on October 7, 1911.
A French painter, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studios of Ferdinand Dubos and Alexandre Cabanel. He specialized in still-life compositions based on fruit, flowers and kitchen utensils. He also painted landscapes and marine views.
In 1876 in Paris, he married Louise Ladevèze, with painter Eugène Capelle as best man.
He stayed in Brussels in 1878-1879. He was in the habit of signing his paintings with the name of the month in which they were painted.
Towards the end of his life, Eugène Cauchois took up decorative painting with floral compositions.
He had a Parisian studio at no. 32 rue des Dames in Paris (17th arrondissement). The painter Marcellin Desboutin (1823-1902) was his neighbor.

Public collections :

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Anger: Fleurs des champs et fruits.
Musée de Louviers: Chez le jardinier - Aux halles.
Musée Ingres de Montauban: Flowers.
Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpignan: Marine.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen: Collection d'horlogerie - La Porte rose - Le train a passé.

Eugène Cauchois made his debut at the 1874 Salon, then sent his works to the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881, 1890 (where he became a member), 1898 (third-class medal), 1904 (second-class medal) and 1908 (Le train a passé; Mélancolie).

Exposition Universelle de 1900, bronze medal.
Galerie Karin Carton: Still life with strawberries.
Galerie Roussel: Fruits; Animals; Still life.

Dictionnaire Bénézit.
André Roussard, Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre, Roissy-en-Brie, ed. A. Roussard, 1999, 640 p., p. 125.
Gérald Schurr, Les petits maîtres de la peinture, published by L'Amateur.

Ref: EPJA8APG81