The painting “Madame Charpentier with Children” was one of those that exhibited at the popular Impressionist exhibition “Salon” in 1879. The canvas was commissioned by George Charpentier, a Parisian publisher who published the novels of Flaubert, Montpassant, Zola and Goncourt. Charpentier and his wife Margaret-Louise Lemonier collected impressionist paintings.
The two children depicted in the picture are Georgette-Bert and Paul-Emile-Charles. According to the French fashion trends of the time, the boy’s clothes are the same as those of his sister, Georgette.
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