The Grandmother And Her Little Daughter Signed Lobrichon Timoléon Marie

The grandmother and her granddaughter painted on canvas in the 19th century signed Timoléon Marie Lobrichon, born April 26, 1831 in Cornod and died in 1914Note 1, is a French painter and illustrator, famous for his representations of childhood. Original gilded stucco frame Lobrichon is the student of François-Édouard Picot. In 1856, he published a comic book in Italian format, Histoire de Mr Tuberculus, adventure of a dreamy boy with a big nose1. Around this time, he was the author of charged portraits for L'Album du Gaulois. A history, portrait and genre painter, he is known in particular for his compositions featuring children, widely reproduced at the time in the form of engravings, by the international house Goupil & Cie. We can thus cite the paintings A corner of the Luxembourg garden, Thumb and Maddy or even The Vitrine of the toy store. In addition to the portraits of children, Lobrichon was also noted for his Jura and Norman landscapes, or his portrait of Michelet2. In 1883, he was named a knight of the Legion of Honor. He lived in Elbeuf and was friends with the painter Edmond-Adolphe Rudaux.