Maurice Bompard
Maurice Bompard may refer to: * Maurice Bompard (painter) (1857–1936), French Orientalist painter * Maurice Bompard (politician) Maurice Bompard (17 May 1854 – 7 April 1935) was a pre-WWI French diplomat and later a politician. Career Bompard was Resident-General for Madagascar from 1889 to 1890. He was head of the Consular department at the Ministry of Foreign Affair ...

Maurice Bompard (painter)
Jean Maurice Bompard (11 February 1857 – 1936) was a French Orientalist painter; one of the founders of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français. Biography He was born in Rodez. At a very young age, in 1865, his family moved to Marseille, where he later studied painting with Dominique Antoine Magaud. He then went to Paris, where he was a student of the Orientalist Gustave Boulanger and the history painter Jules Lefebvre, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. His first exhibit was in 1878. Four years later, he obtained a grant that enabled him to visit Germany, Italy, Spain and Tunisia. Not long after returning, in 1889, he married Amélie Perretti, and they immediately set off for a three-month stay in Biskra. He would go there every winter for the next few years, until 1893, when the local people became suspicious of his activities. After that, until 1908, he wintered in Venice. In his later years, he was a free-lance artist in Paris. Bompard's ...
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