Chez Alphonse Lemerre, à Ville-d’Avray - Paul Chabas (crop), 1895

The poets of parnassus painting by paul chabas, “chez alphonse lemerre, in ville d’avray”, salon of 1895 the garden of the former property of camille corot's father, bought by the parisian publisher alphonse lemerre, serves here as a backdrop for the painter paul chabas to immortalize the poets of parnassus. Alongside paul bourget, we note françois coppée, leconte de lisle, marcel prévost, auguste dorchain, léon dierx, henri cazalis, alphonse daudet, sully-prudhomme, jules breton, paul arène, andré theuriet, jules claretie, josé-maria de heredia, paul hervieu, henry roujon, georges lafenestre, alphonse lemerre. Date: 1895.