Lachaume De Gavaux Louis, Dit Cheret (1820-1882)portrait Of A Grenadier In Front Of The Military School

(Jean) Louis Lachaume de Gaveaux, known as Cheret, was born on June 18, 1820 in New Orleans (United States). He is the son of a music composer who performed several comic operas and published albums at Le Ménestrel. He became a painter and created numerous decorations. The last decorations to come out of his workshops at 93, rue du Chemin-Vert, are those of the first three paintings of Quatre-vingt-treize, of which he made the models, on his bed of pain. He died after four days of a very painful agony, due to intestinal cancer from which he has suffered for a long time. He died in Paris (11th), on January 7, 1882. Theater settings: The gardens of Chenonceau des Huguenots; the first act of Sylvia; the King's Desert of Lahore; the Tartar decor by Michel Strogoff; the shipwreck of Paul and Virginie; the banks of the Nile of Aida; the second act of The Tribute of Zamora; the mills of the Prophet; the Pompeii of King Carrot; the ice of the Capture of Peking by d’Ennery; the sets of Cinderella; the land of the White Cat birds; the Peau d’âne aquarium; the volcano from Journey to the Moon; the lake of William Tell; the last fifteen paintings of the Christmas Tree, etc.