19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau
The Unexpected Surprise
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May 26, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Property of a Private Collector, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau
French
1855 - 1931
The Unexpected Surprise
signed Chocarne Moreau (lower right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 24 ½ by 20 in.; 62.2 by 50.8 cm
framed: 37½ by 33¾ in.; 95.2 by 85.7 cm
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 2000, lot 163
Born in Dijon, Chocarne-Moreau studied under William Bouguereau and Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury. He specialized in whimsical pictures of young boys, chimney sweeps, and kitchen-hands cavorting in the streets of Paris, selling, stealing, and playing tricks on each other.
He was a frequent and successful exhibitor at the Paris Salons, receiving honorable mention in 1886 and a bronze medal in 1889 at the Exposition Universelle.
He was a frequent and successful exhibitor at the Paris Salons, receiving honorable mention in 1886 and a bronze medal in 1889 at the Exposition Universelle.