The French artist Georges Mouton (his full name was Louis-Georges Mouton) grew up in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was trained by the painters Alexandre Cabanel and William Bouguereau. He began his artistic career in Paris, exhibiting regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1889 onwards.

In 1892 he moved to Algeria, where he lived for sixteen years, and it was there that he produced the majority of his best-known works. Mouton’s paintings often depict daily life in Algeria – horsemen, soldiers, street scenes, markets, festivals, and portraits of women and children. He uses bright, vivid colours to capture the country's atmosphere. While in Algeria he met other French artists in search of a more exotic lifestyle, including Étienne Dinet, with whom he became an important friend and colleague.

Like several other artists of the period, Mouton dabbled in erotic and sexually suggestive drawings and watercolours and drawings, probably to earn a little extra income. These collections were circulated privately among ‘discerning gentlemen’.

Georges Mouton returned to France in 1908 and resumed his exhibition activities at the Salon des Artistes Français, receiving several awards including a silver medal in 1910. In 1920 he retired to Château-Thierry, in the Aisne region east of Paris, where he lived and worked until his death.