Antique Woman Portrait Painting, Young Woman Sewing In The Garden, Oil On Wood, XX . (qr577)

The Antique Woman Portrait Painting, Young Woman Sewing In The Garden,
an oil painting on panel, from the mid-twentieth century.
It is a portrait of a young woman in a white dress sitting in the garden 
intent on sewing, painted in an intimate moment.

The painter uses warm colours that create a beautiful summer atmosphere.
The work is signed H. Angéniol in the lower left, a French painter from Lyon of portraits,
landscape paintings, religious paintings, still lifes of flowers. French antiquity.

Henri-Charles Angéniol (1870-1959) studied at the School of Fine Arts in both Lyon and Paris taking lessons with the
painter Tony Tollet and then later worked in the studio of the artist Gustave Moreau.
He exhibited his paintings at the ‘Salon des Artistes Français’ in Paris from 1904 to 1914.

He exhibited his works continuously at the ‘Société lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts’ from 1919 to 1959.
He was praised by the press of the period for his ability to portray subjects in their intimate expressiveness
in everyday moments. His painting was defined as ‘intimist painting’.

He exhibited his paintings at the 'Salon de Paris' from 1890. 
The frame and oil paintings are professionally restored.
The work is dressed in a carved and lacquered wooden frame coeval with the painting.

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Restored Painting | French Origin | 20th Century | French Antiquity |  Lyon School
Bibliography: E. Bénézit. Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculptures Dessinateurs et Graveurs.
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Wood size: 33 x 23 cm
Size with frame: 43.5 x 35 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Weight: 1.1 kg