The Young Mother - Hippolyte Fournier

The young mother: Oil on canvas Signature lower right

Fournier was a French painter who studied with Jean-Paul Laurens and exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français. He was a painter of genre scenes, which pay homage to family life. He also produced a series of paintings on the life of peasants in the Anjou region. In some of his paintings, he approaches symbolism (as is the case in our painting "The young mother"). In the same style, he also painted diaphanous nudes and religious paintings (Saint Cecilia and a young girl having the vision of an angel entitled Va!), which was exhibited out of competition at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1910. In Paris , he obtained a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, a silver medal in 1890 and another bronze in 1900.
In 1903, he became a member of the Society of French Artists.