Victor
Gilbert Gabriel

He was born in Paris in the 8th arrondissement artisans 13 Feb 1847. His parents were poor and could not give a talented young man of education, typical for artists. Then Victor had to study to become a disciple apprenticed to painter-decorator. Klassicheskogo lack of education may have forced him prismatrivalsya towards life, and from there to draw inspiration. So he became the painter of Les Halles district in Paris, which was the center of the street-sellers, and by the way, still exists. These markets are fascinating and bustling part of Paris.
Many of these scenes were written to show at the Salon in 1880, and brought him his first gold medal. Painting of Victor successively came under the influence of time from realism to impressionism.
More prolific painter of flower girls I've ever met. Fetishist, not otherwise. And why was. His close friend was "francuzski Tretyakov" - Pierre Martin, a collector of paintings by Monet, van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, and one of the principal supporters of the impressionist movement, who bought all of his work with the flower girls, inspiring Gilbert thereby writing a new one.
Gilbert died on 21 Jul 1935 and is buried in the cemetery of Montmartre in Paris.