Turpin de Chaulnes. French painter and writer of the 1800s. His only surviving known work within the school of French academic figurative art (male physique/nude), watercolor and tempera on paper. Not much is known on the artist, with the exception that he was a writer and a portrait artist. Majority of his formal portraits were of women. Rumor in some art historian circles, is the model was his town’s blacksmith and owner of a tavern and gym for public servants.
