"Portrait Of Man By Auguste Berthon, Signed And Dated 1905"
Beautiful portrait of a man wearing decorations, work dated 1905 and signed by Auguste Berthon. Auguste BERTHON
Born February 26, 1858 in Saint-Etienne. XIXth century. French Painter.
Student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in 1875-1877, then student of Pils and José Frappa in Paris. He debuted at the Paris Salon in 1880, with the Portrait of José Frappa and Le Pactole du Bohème. He exhibited for twelve years at the Society of French Artists, then passed to the National Society of Fine Arts.