Maurice Bompard (painter)

At a very young age, in 1865, his family moved to Marseille, where he later studied painting with Dominique Antoine Magaud.

He then went to Paris, where he was a student of the Orientalist Gustave Boulanger and the history painter Jules Lefebvre, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

Not long after returning, in 1889, he married Amélie Perretti, and they immediately set off for a three-month stay in Biskra.

Bompard's Orientalist works depicted scenes from daily life; notably The Butchers of Chetma, which was presented at the Salon in 1890.

The common areas of the Grand Hôtel Broussy in Rodez (lounge and dining room) feature his decorative murals.