"Tunisia By Jean-baptiste Noro"
Tunisia by Jean-Baptiste NORO oil on canvas signed lower right format 51cm x40cm Jean-Baptiste Noro, sometimes Jean Noro, is a French painter and anarchist born on September 11, 1841 in Montmerle-sur-Saône (Ain) and died in June 1909 in Tunis. A former student of Gustave Courbet, he joined the National Guard in which he was appointed officer. Already engaged in the International Workingmen's Association (IWA), he participated in the Paris Commune and commanded the 22nd battalion, responsible for defending the fort of Vanves1. He was sentenced in absentia to deportation in 1872. Exiled in Geneva, he participated in the anti-authoritarian split in the International. He was married to Émilie Noro, who would testify from the Versailles prisons, but he had a relationship in exile with Paule Minck. The Noro couple returned to Paris after the amnesty of 1881, before settling in the colonies of North Africa. Jean-Baptiste Noro continued his activities as a painter and drawing teacher in Algeria and Tunisia.