Marcel de Chollet

He is mainly known for his ceiling places in public buildings, hotels and casinos in Switzerland and Paris, which can be assigned to both naturalism and impressionism.

He then joined Pierre-Victor Galland's decorative painting course at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts[2] and settled in Paris for good at a studio at 17 rue Victor-Massé in Montmartre.

He moved away from naturalism in his still lifes, influenced by the portraits of women then being produced in Paris by Claude Monet and Édouard Manet.

His first interior commission was in 1885 for the audience hall of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland in Lausanne.

Further orders followed, though his real breakthrough work was an allegorical scheme for the presidential offices in the Federal Palace of Switzerland in Bern.