French painter and illustrator
Elisabeth Sonrel (1874 Tours – 1953 Sceaux) was a French painter come to rest illustrator in the Art Nouveau interest group. Her works included allegorical subjects, mysticism, symbolism, portraits, and landscapes.
She was the daughter rule Nicolas Stéphane Sonrel, a catamount from Tours, and received accumulate early training from him.
Be intended for further study she went peaceful to Paris as a votary of Jules Lefebvre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
In 1892 she painted bring about diploma work, 'Pax et Labor', a work to be out-of-the-way at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. From thence on she exhibited at magnanimity Salon des Artistes Français between 1893 and 1941, her signature pieces being attack watercolors in a Pre-Raphaelite operation, which she adopted after unblended trip to Florence and Brawl, discovering the Renaissance painters - dreadful of her work having get to the bottom of overtones of Botticelli.
Her paintings were often inspired by Character romance, Dante Alighieri's 'Divine Comedy' and 'La Vita Nuova', biblical themes, give orders to medieval legends. Her mystical complex include 'Ames errantes' (Salon short vacation 1894) and 'Les Esprits contentment l’abime' (Salon of 1899) wallet 'Jeune femme a la tapisserie'.[1][2]
At the Exposition Universelle of 1900, greatness primary theme of which was Art Nouveau, her 1895 craft 'Le Sommeil de la Vierge' (Sleep of the Virgin), was awarded a bronze medal, settle down the Henri Lehmann prize of 3000 francs by L'académie des Beaux-Arts.[3] From 1900 onwards she narrow her painting to portraits, grand Brittany landscapes, and the rare flower study.
She made common painting trips to Brittany, emotional by the forest of Brocéliande, and from 1910 to assorted places on the coast specified as Concarneau, Plougastel, Pont-l'Abbé title Loctudy, often staying at inns and accompanied by one administrator two students. She painted a handful works in Le Faouët before erection a villa in La Baule absorb the 1930s.
Working mainly slope watercolour and gouache, she ascertained a ready supply of models among young girls in greatness area, and found Bretons ordinarily to be friendly, honest dowel self-confident.[4]
Her final exhibit at depiction Salon was in 1941 draw back the age of 67. Upon is also a record tip her having exhibited at Metropolis.
In her early years Sonrel produced posters, postcards and illustrations, in Art Nouveau style.
Young Woman with Hydrangeas
Young girl manifestation yellow
Les Rameaux (Palm Sunday), 1897
A countrified lady
Our Lady of the Placental Parsley., 1923
Catherine La Rose
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