Paul-Émile Boutigny
Paul-Émile Boutigny (10 March 1853 in Paris – 27 June 1929 in Paris) was a French painter who specialized in military subjects. Life and work. His father was a tailor and his mother worked as a seamstress. Following the Franco-Prussian War, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel and developed a unique style of battle painting, drawn from personal experience. He was a regular participant in the Salon after 1880. He was decorated with the Légion d'honneur in 1898. That same year, he began producing the satirical, artistic and literary journal "Cocorico