French impressionist cat. 31 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (framed). Oil onboard. Born Henri Delvaille in Bayonne ( Basses-Pyrénées ) on July 6 , 1876 and died in Sceaux ( Hauts-de-Seine ) on July 6 , 1928 , is a French painter and decorator. After studying from 1895 to 1897 at the Bayonne School of Fine Arts, Henry Caro-Delvaille studied with Léon Bonnat at the Paris School of Fine Arts. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon of the Society of French Artists in Paris in 1899. He won a medal of third class in 1901 for his painting entitled The manicure 1 . Member of the National Society of Fine Arts from 1903, he became secretary in 1904. In 1905, he won the grand gold medal of the International Exhibition in Munich. The same year, his friend Edmond Rostand confided to him the decoration of his villa of Cambo . He is then known as a portraitist and enjoys many orders. He was knighted the legion of honor in 1910.

Some surface scratches and marks, needs some touch up