Auguste Baud-Bovy

Auguste Baud-Bovy (13 February 1848, Geneva – 3 June 1899, Davos) was a Swiss painter who specialized in landscapes, village scenes and shepherds.

There, he made many friends among those who had come to Switzerland as a result of the Paris Commune, including Henri Rochefort, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Elisée Reclus and Gustave Courbet, whom he painted alongside at La Tour-de-Peilz.

He decided to move his family to Paris in 1882, but was only there for a few years when he read a book on the Swiss countryside and was inspired to visit the small village of Aeschi.

In 1891, together with Eugène Burnand and François Furet (1842–1919), he created part of a panorama (now lost) of the Bernese Alps that was shown at the Columbian World Exposition in 1893.

That same year, thanks to a petition by Puvis de Chavannes, Auguste Rodin and others, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor.