Antoine Blanchard (1910-1985) French, Oil on Canvas. 'Place du Chatelet en Hiver'. Signed. Provenance: Wally Findlay Galleries, Chicago, 1981. Overall Size: 20 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. Sight Size: 12 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. #1427 . Antoine Blanchard (c.1910 - 1988) was active/lived in France. Antoine Blanchard is known for Parisien street scene painting-upper class genre. was a prolific and successful Neo-Impressionist painter who specialized in nostalgic scenes of Fin de Si?cle Paris. Inspired by the subjects as well as the success of earlier painters of Parisian life like E. Galien Laloue (1854-1941), Edouard Cortes (1882-1969), Jean Beraud (1849-1935) and Luigi Loir (1845-1916), Blanchard painted hundreds of views of the 'City of Light.' In the late 1950s, his street scenes were exported to the United States and the United Kingdom, where they were sold briskly to collectors. By the1960s, Blanchard paintings were bringing several hundred dollars in galleries, so while they were not inexpensive, they were affordable to collectors who loved Parisian scenes but who could not afford the works of Cortes or one of the other French painters known for their views of Paris in Belle Epoque. Eventually Blanchard?s more delicate, feathery pastel-toned scenes of rain-swept Paris became sought after in their own right and, when he died, he was considered the last of what the dealers described as the ?cole de Paris or 'School of Paris' painters.