Adolphe Piot

With the 1870 Salon he began to exhibit genre works with titles such as Abandonée (The Abandoned), Coquetterie (Coquetry), and La Lettre (The Letter).

[2] Adolphe Piot created expressive depictions of beautiful women, with dark backgrounds to draw attention to the subject, and also made many works showing children.

[2] An 1879 reviewer wrote, A Frenchman, like M. Adolphe Piot, will dash upon the canvas a gracious little tableau, even if the subject is not a new one.

A little brown Italian girl, with expressive black eyes, and hair that has been bleached and reddened from long exposure to the sun, is holding a basket of peaches and grapes, which she offers for sale to those who pass by.

The costume of "The Little Merchant" is picturesque, and on her face there is a smile which the Frenchmen call ravissant de grâce.

[2] His work is held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.