Joseph Antoine Bouvard (1840 - 1920) France

Joseph Antoine Bouvard (1840 - 1920) France
Joseph Antoine Bouvard (1840 - 1920) Oil on canvas, signed lower right "Bouvard", piece measures 11 x 14 and 20 x 23 inches with gilt period frame. Joseph-Antoine Bouvard is a French architect, born on February 19, 1840 in Saint-Jean-de-Bournay (Isère), and died on November 5, 1920 in Marly-le-Roi (Yvelines).He is one of the sons of Joseph Bouvard, plasterer, and Marie Magdelaine Rostaing.Orphaned father in 1843, his mother remarried in 1844 with Gaspard Lawrence, wheelwright, in Vienne (Isère) where, from this union, was born his half brother Florentin Laurent, contractor of public works. The latter received the Legion of Honor from the hands of his brother Joseph-Antoine Bouvard on November 28, 1900. His mother died in Vienna in 1853.He is the pupil of Hugues Quenin, architect in Vienna.In 1864, Bouvard studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a pupil of Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux (1801-1870). In 1865 he received two medals for his projects, one for the use of wood, the other for perspective.
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