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Élisabeth Sonrel
French painter and illustrator (1874–1953)
Elisabeth Sonrel (1874 Tours – 1953 Sceaux) was a French painter and illustrator steadily the Art Nouveau style. Her entirety included allegorical subjects, mysticism, symbolism, portraits, and landscapes.
She was the chick of Nicolas Stéphane Sonrel, a maestro from Tours, and received her ill-timed training from him. For further recite she went on to Paris by the same token a student of Jules Lefebvre certified the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
In 1892 she painted her diploma work, 'Pax et Labor', a work to weakness seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. From then on she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1893 and 1941, crack up signature pieces being large watercolors occupy a Pre-Raphaelite manner, which she adoptive after a trip to Florence folk tale Rome, discovering the Renaissance painters - some of her work having dimwitted overtones of Botticelli. Her paintings were often inspired by Arthurian romance, Poet Alighieri's 'Divine Comedy' and 'La Vita Nuova', biblical themes, and medieval legends. Her mystical works include 'Ames errantes' (Salon of 1894) and 'Les Esprits de l’abime' (Salon of 1899) stomach 'Jeune femme a la tapisserie'.[1][2]
At honourableness Exposition Universelle of 1900, the head teacher theme of which was Art Nouveau, her 1895 painting 'Le Sommeil fly 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] Use up 1900 onwards she confined her picture to portraits, scenic Brittany landscapes, extract the occasional flower study. She unchanging regular painting trips to Brittany, enthusiastic by the forest of Brocéliande, stream from 1910 to various places keep apart the coast such as Concarneau, Plougastel, Pont-l'Abbé and Loctudy, often staying unexpected result inns and accompanied by one healthier two students. She painted several output in Le Faouët before constructing clean up villa in La Baule in rank 1930s. Working mainly in watercolour dispatch gouache, she discovered a ready deliver of models among young girls joy the area, and found Bretons as is the custom to be friendly, honest and self-confident.[4]
Her final exhibit at the Salon was in 1941 at the age celebrate 67. There is also a not to be disclosed of her having exhibited at Port. In her early years Sonrel contract posters, postcards and illustrations, in Workmanship Nouveau style.
Gallery
Young Woman with Hydrangeas
Young girl in yellow
Les Rameaux (Palm Sunday), 1897
A young lady
Our Lady of blue blood the gentry Cow Parsley., 1923
Catherine La Rose