Marius Roy was a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian and obtained an Honorable Mention at the Salon of 1882. In 1901, he became Official Painter of the Navy . An academic-style painter, he nevertheless stands out from the firefighter style by the choice of his subjects where, behind the theme of the army, he endeavors to depict a more human, almost social vision of the soldier: “It’s a rare military painters who seriously and passionately study the types, moreover so varied and so interesting, of our army, by making the representation of the daily life of a soldier real scenes of military genre. In 1883, his studio in Paris was at the foot of the southern slope of the Montmartre hill at no .23 of the old rue Laval Note. Appointed Master of Drawing at the École Polytechnique , he specialized in the representation of military life in its simplest aspects . In 1912, he was domiciled at No. 4 rue Vercingétorix Note 2 in the district of Plaisance , near Montparnasse but with much more modest rents.