Émilie Pauline CASPERS
 (Paris, 1865 – Paris, 1946)

 Still life with bouquet of flowers in an Imari vase

 Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
 Signed lower right
 41 x 33 cm

 Pauline Caspers was born in Paris on April 18, 1865, from the union of Henri Caspers, piano maker and music composer, and Marie Gouget des Fontaines.
 A student of Louis Lemaire (1824-1910) and Eugénie Hautier (1822-1909), our young artist exhibited every year at the Paris Salon from 1890 as a member of the Society of French Artists. She was also present in the provinces at the Salons of Lyon, Le Havre, Rouen, Honfleur, Toulouse, Brest… The Galerie Georges Petit also exhibited her in 1899.
 Her favourite subjects were botanical compositions of flowers, fruits and bouquets, in oil or gouache. She also produced, according to critics, some beautiful drawings, including genre scenes and portraits.
 In 1885, she obtained her drawing teacher's certificate and then opened her studio in the family home, rue de Plaisance, in Nogent-sur-Marne.
 In 1930, the state acquired his large still life entitled “Hydrangeas” and deposited it at the prefecture of Lons-le-Saunier.
 In addition to her easel painting production, we also know of her large-scale decorative work. In 1896, Pauline Caspers offered her painting entitled "Benissant le Pays" to the Sacré Cœur chapel in the Petites-Dalles church. She also created a large canvas for the Sacré-Cœur chapel in the right apse of the Saint Dominique church in Paris (fourteenth arrondissement). Later, at the age of 73, our artist created in 1938 the large mural painting that still decorates the choir of the Eucharistic Choir of Jesus church in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris.
 Pauline Caspers died unmarried in Paris on November 1, 1946 and was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.