Louis-Georges Mouton
2 albums/27 artworks – Louis-Georges Mouton (1862 – 1924) trained in the marble halls of the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel and Bouguereau, masters of polished flesh and classical grace. In 1890 he crossed the Mediterranean to Algeria, where he painted Fantasia riders, carpet merchants, and veiled women beneath blazing light. His canvases,rich with ochre, indigo, and the shimmer of silk, earned silver medals at the Salon des Artistes Français and a quiet reputation as an orientalist. Yet in the same portfolio that held sun-drenched souks, Mouton kept a locked drawer. There, in delicate ink and watercolor wash, he drew women bound in silk cords, backs arched beneath gloved hands, lips parted in silent surrender. Around 1910 he illustrated Chez…
