Laurent Bouvier was an impressionist painter before becoming a ceramicist. His ceramics - few in number - were distributed by the Durand-Ruel Gallery. The famous painting in the Musée d'Orsay "A workshop in Batignolles" represents one of his vases (source: article by Marc Ducret "Revue de la Société des Amis du Musée National de la Céramique") a similar example RMN Grand Palais/Musée de Sèvres)