Albert Dubois-Pillet was a career military officer and self-taught amateur painter, closely aligned with the Neo-Impressionists. Though not formally trained, various Salons accepted his still lifes for display as early as 1877. A friend of Georges Seurat, Dubois-Pillet was a founder of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1884, helping to write the statutes of the group and becoming one of the
