Paul Émile Chabas
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Paul Émile Chabas was a French painter and illustrator and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Chabas, circa 1897
Paul Chabas's September Morn, 1912, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
La Baigneuse, 1905–1910
A Lady
September Morn
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Matinée de Septembre is an oil painting on canvas completed in 1911 by the French artist Paul Émile Chabas. Painted over several summers, it depicts a nude girl or young woman standing in the shallow
Paul Émile Chabas
…young woman in a natural setting. He was considered to be one of Europe's greatest painters of nudes. His most famous painting, Matinée de Septembre (September Morn) (1912), became a "succès de scandale" in the United States in May, 1913, when Anthony Comstock, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression…
A 1961 reproduction of the painting, showing the dominance of grays
The painter, Paul Émile Chabas, c. 1910
Anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock; his reaction to the painting promoted further controversy.