Henry Somm (1844-1907) - Watercolor On Paper

Henry Somm (1844-1907) - Watercolor On Paper Watercolor on paper representing a woman Signed lower right Visible at the Galerie Courcelles Antiquités, at 41 rue des Acacias, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

François Clément Sommier, known as Henry Somm, is a French painter, watercolorist, draftsman, engraver and caricaturist. After studying at the municipal drawing school of Rouen, Henry Somm settled in Paris in the 1860s. He executed numerous etchings for the magazine Paris between 1873 and 1876, and, for Cadart, among others, some inserts intended for L'Eauforte in… In 1879 and 1889, he participated in the impressionist exhibitions at Durand-Ruel in Paris. He wrote the one-act comedy La Berline de l'émigré, or Never too late to do well, created for Le Chat noir, on December 25, 1885. He left a large quantity of drawings and watercolors of Parisian women seized on the quick in the 1890s.