Pierre Carrier Belleuse - Portrait Of An Elegant Woman In A Hat, Pastel On Canvas Art Nouveau, 1903

Superb portrait of a woman dressed in a white dress with a white hat. She poses with one hand at chin level and seems to challenge the viewer by looking at him. Pastel work on canvas signed by a great pastel master Pierre Carrier Belleuse and dated 1903. Work under glass and framed in a white Louis XV style frame. Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (or Carrier de Belleuse) is a French painter. Coming from a line of artists, he will be the pupil of his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, then of Alexandre Cabanel. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He entered the Salon in 1875 and was awarded several times, notably at the Universal Exhibition of 1889. He was admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890, then joined the Société Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which he chaired in 1895. He married the granddaughter of Honoré de Balzac, and gave painting classes at the Académie Julian. Like his father, his work is mainly dedicated to female representations. He also produced landscapes and panoramas, notably representing the Opal Coast. He worked almost exclusively in pastel from 1885. The Petit Palais has several of his works, as well as several regional museums (Marseille, Rennes, Lourdes, Le Puy-en-Velay, etc.).