He is known mostly as a painter of flowers and of landscape compositions with figures which were often informed by mythology and classical history.
The son of a gardener, he originally entered his father's trade, and progressed to operating a nursery.
[2] Subsequently, Bauchant's most frequent subjects were floral still lifes and landscapes with figures.
In 1937 his paintings were included in the exhibition Maîtres Populaires de la Réalité, which traveled to Paris, Zurich, and London.
[1] According to the art historian Nadine Pouillon, "Bauchant's treatment of figures, frozen in attitudes indicating a certain awkwardness and as if enshrined in foliage, manifest a poetic and mysterious quality sometimes reminiscent of medieval paintings.