Édouard Marie Guillaume DEBUFE (1853-1909) "La joueuse de violon", watercolor signed lower left "G. Debufe fils" and dated 1891, on the back label Toussaint Fres & P. Ferret Emballeurs de la Direction des Beaux Arts Dim. 38 x 19 cm (at sight) Born in a great family of artists, pupil of Joseph Mazerolle and Alexandre Cabanel, he participated in the realization of numerous decorations in monuments (ceiling of the foyer of the Comédie Française, decorations in the Palais de l'Elysée, in the library of the Sorbonne or in the Blue Train of the Gare de Lyon)

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