Musketeers in the Tavern
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm.)
Private collection
Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet (12 April 1840–11 April 1920) was a French painter and engraver, best known for his historical and costume genre scenes.
He was born in Uzès. His father was the owner of a café and a liqueur manufacturer who moved his family to Lyon in 1846. He began by studying engraving at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon. After his father’s death in 1863, he took his new wife and baby to Paris, where he studied with Jean-Georges Vibert and copied the Old Masters at the Louvre…
Zaidan Gallery 
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