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French painter
Gluttony or The Selfish Perfect
Gouache on canvas
With frame: 36 x 50 cm
Painter of the delicate and the sensitive, Henry Jules Jean Geoffroy has made a reputation by painting children in their occupations.
He was able to translate with great tenderness and delicacy the naive charm of the latter. Painter and watercolorist, he began his career at the Salon of 1874.
Here he represents three young children. One proudly holds his trophy: a chocolate bar. Such a treasure cannot be ignored: the child is surrounded by two others, ready to claim their share in the delight, a rare commodity at the turn of the century. The smocks suggest that the children are schoolchildren. However, the painter refuses to contextualize: he unites the characters in a homogeneous background of a light and fresh green.
