Le Laboratoire, 1891 - Olivié-Bon Léon (1863-1901)

The Laboratory, 1891
Signed lower right and dated
With a dedication "to my friend Cazin".
Maurice CAZIN (1863-1933). Doctor of Natural Sciences, surgeon and President of the Society of Medicine of Paris and the Society of Surgeons of Paris.

Léon Olivié-Bon (1863-1901) was a painter and pastellist of figures and portraits. A student of Gérome and Jean-Paul Laurens. He became member of the Societé des Artistes Français in 1888 and awarded honourable mention in 1892. He is best remembered for his fresco In the Laboratory in residents doctor's waiting and recreation room in the hospital de la Charité in Paris

Source Benezit 

The work has been cleaned and reframed in a modern frame