François Joseph GUIGUET (1860-1937). Full-length portrait of a young boy in a black suit. Technique on paper signed lower right. Sight size: Height 48 cm - Width 30.5 cm François GUIGUET studied drawing as a child with the painter Auguste RAVIER (1814-1895). He entered the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Lyon in 1879, where he was admitted to the studio of Michel DUMAS (1812-1885), a former pupil of Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES (1780-1867), and perfected his drawing skills and classical compositional subjects. In 1882, he won the Prix de Paris, enabling him to continue his studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. From 1889 onwards, he lived at 13 rue Ravignan, the future site of the Bateau-Lavoir, until 1905, where he made friends with Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES (1824-1898) and Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917). He was recognized and appreciated for the quality of his portraits, which he completed only after numerous preparatory studies and posing sessions. Specializing in scenes of daily life, he also produced, to a lesser extent, compositions of landscapes and still lifes.