Eugene Petit (1839-1886)
Eugène Petit (1839–1886) was a French flower painter and textile designer. Petit was born in Paris in 1839 and died there in 1886. He was a pupil of Muller and Dieterle. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1863 and was awarded a bronze medal in 1873. He briefly taught the American painter Henry Woodbridge Parton, c.1875. He specialized in still life paintings of flowers and fruits, as well as sporting dogs. His work has been found in museums in Carcassonne, Compiègne, Courtrai, Rouen and Saint-Etienne in France as well as The Sladmore Gallery in London.
