The world has seen several artists at different times and Antoine Blanchard (Marcel Masson) was born in France on November 15, 1910 in a modest village close to the banks of the Loire. He was the eldest of three youngsters and his father, a carver, supervised a modest carpentry and furniture shop. Antoine might watch his father hand cut the furniture and started to display an imaginative energy promptly in life -in an endeavor to advertise this talent, his guardians sent him to Blois for drawing lessons. He proceeded his preparation in Rennes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he concentrated on figure and drawing. Upon fulfillment of his studies, he was honored the schools most astounding recompense: Le Prix du Ministre. By 1932 he left Rennes and made a trip to Paris to study. He selected at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and a couple of years later entered the rivalry for the Prix de Rome. It was in Paris that he advanced a fondness for the city and its road life. A considerable lot of the subjects and scenes he depicted were taken from pictures he gathered of Paris throughout the 1890's and he might frequently finalize artworks for a long time or months before he beyond any doubt felt they were lacking nothing.
