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(Gustave Mohler). Notebook of animal drawings (end of XIXth). Notebook in printed fabric colors (155 mm x 190 mm). Presents 6 ink drawings on fabric (cats, dogs, donkey....). Monogrammed G.M. Slight punctures. Good condition. Gustave Mohler (1836 / 1920), painter sculptor and ceramist, he studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the workshops of Léon Cogniet and Antoine Louis Barye. He moved to Nevers in 1863 and spent his entire career there as an eclectic artist. In 1870, Gustave Mohler married Marie Hélène Robelin, granddaughter of a local scholar-collector, Jacques Gallois, who donated his collection to the city of Nevers in 1847. He was a teacher, qualified as an "animal painter", at the municipal school of arts in Nevers, alongside Édouard Pail and François Moreau de Charny. Some of his works are preserved in the Nevers Museum of Fine Arts.
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(Gustave Mohler). Notebook of animal drawings (end of XIXth). Notebook in printed fabric colors (155 mm x 190 mm). Presents 6 ink drawings on fabric (cats, dogs, donkey....). Monogrammed G.M. Slight punctures. Good condition. Gustave Mohler (1836 / 1920), painter sculptor and ceramist, he studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the workshops of Léon Cogniet and Antoine Louis Barye. He moved to Nevers in 1863 and spent his entire career there as an eclectic artist. In 1870, Gustave Mohler married Marie Hélène Robelin, granddaughter of a local scholar-collector, Jacques Gallois, who donated his collection to the city of Nevers in 1847. He was a teacher, qualified as an "animal painter", at the municipal school of arts in Nevers, alongside Édouard Pail and François Moreau de Charny. Some of his works are preserved in the Nevers Museum of Fine Arts.
