Marcel-Amable Capy (French, d.1930)

Marcel Capy was best known as an illustrator, capturing the noise and movement of Parisian streets, theatres and restaurants. He set his present work in a more relaxing environment where a young gardener tends to blossoming flowers. Capy exhibited at the Paris Salon des Humoristes and at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, receiving an honourable mention in 1884.