Emile Léon Jean Dufour 1894-1975 Gouache Titled The Guillotine Chouan Vendée
Painter of portraits and landscapes, from 1932 he regularly exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries. romantic works of the 19th and 20th centuries, notably Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas, Erckmann-Chatrian, Edgar Poe, pierre Loti, Anatole France etc. Émilien-Léon-Jean Dufour, born December 27, 1894 in Paris and died May 27, 1975 in Briançon, is a French painter and illustrator. One of his most appreciated works seems to be the edition of My brother Yves by pierre Loti published by Calmann-Lévy in 1936; Painter of portraits and landscapes, from 1932 he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d’Automne. He is particularly known for having been the illustrator of a large number of nineteenth and twentieth century romantic works1, notably Madam Bovary b.