Marcel Cosson - "in The Opera Boxes", Oil On Panel

"In the boxes of the opera"
The painting shows ballerinas and gentlemen in tuxedos in the foyers of the Opéra Garnier in Paris.
45cm by 37cm Signed Cosson lower left.
Oil on hardboard in a gilded wooden frame (58cm by 50cm)
Work circa 1910.

Marcel Cosson is a French post-impressionist painter. He first exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, of which he became a member, honorable mention in 1901, third medal in 1911, then at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and that of the Tuileries. He often deals with subjects of opera, ballets, circus. He established himself as a painter of women, of Parisian life, of the world of dance and theater. He also distinguished himself more rarely, but no less brilliantly, in the painting of sumptuous bouquets.