Augustin Chenu

In 1846, his family moved to Lyon and he entered the École Nationale des Beaux-arts, where he studied design and painting with Michel Philibert Genod and Claude Bonnefond.

Beginning in 1854, he participated in the local salons and attracted positive attention there, but failed to acquire a clientele outside of Lyon.

He finally gained some nationwide attention with his showing at the International Exposition of Paris in 1867;[1] notably with his tableau depicting the Carthusians in Lyon.

His fame was established by a series of genre scenes of life in Lyon; two of which were acquired by the government and put on display at the Musée du Luxembourg.

These purchases insured his financial security, but his career was short as he died of a heart ailment in 1875, just three days before his forty-second birthday.