Art Of The Day Weekly

Long live the Republic

MOULINS - Jean Geoffroy was an “official” painter dedicated to describe childhood and the humble classes and through his art the virtues of education – a founding ideal of the Third Republic. Géo, his nickname, is well forgotten today. The museum, specialised in academic painting, presents some one hundred works – studious schoolchildren, classes being et out, apprentices in the workshop…
• Jean Geoffroy (1853-1924), a Republican commitment , at the musée Anne-de-Baujeu, from 28 November 2015 to 18 September 2016.

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