[2] He exhibited his paintings at the Salon d'Automne, the Société des Artistes Indépendants and the Tuileries.
[3] Although the murals are strong artistic works, they are unquestioning in their acceptance of France's colonial destiny.
Bouquet created a painting named Souvenir du Musée des Colonies that depicts the men who worked on the pavilion: the architects Albert Laprade and Léon Bazin, the sculptor Alfred Janniot, the decorator Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann and himself.
The painting also includes an anonymous black woman wearing only a skirt, resembling Josephine Baker, who represents the indigenous colonial people.
In reality, Lyon was suffering economically at the time, and the mural represented an optimistic view of the city as it would like to be seen.