Georges-lucien Boichard - Allegory Of Truth (study)

Georges-Lucien BOICHARD Paris, 1857 – Paris, 1929 Oil on panel signed and dated top left "GL BOICHARD / 81" 47 x 33 cm (59 x 47.5 cm with the frame) Mark of the panel merchant on the back of Maison BOICHARD in Paris Georges Lucien Boichard is a French painter. His father Jean-Alcide-Henri Boichard was himself an academic painter who exhibited at the Salon between 1844 and 1868. A student of Léon Bonnat and Jules Lefebvre, Georges Lucien Boichard exhibited at the Salon from 1880. Our painting dated 1881 is probably a study for an allegorical subject of Truth, a pretext for representing a beautiful naked woman near a fountain. The very beautiful modeling of the woman's body and the pose are reminiscent of Renaissance sculptures or even those of ancient Greece and the ideal of beauty feminine. This theme was fashionable among artists in the 1880s in France. It could be the painting exhibited by Georges Lucien Boichard at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881 and entitled "Study".