René Lelong 1871+1933 Woman In White. O/c 29 X 54 Cm

Conditions : Excellent. Original canvas. No restoration necessary.

René Lelong studied at the Académie Julian from 1879 to 18913. He was awarded a 3rd class medal at the Salon des artistes français in 18954, of which he became a member in 1898. He created advertising posters and illustrated numerous books and texts, notably in the Nelson collection or the magazines Femina, Je sais tout, Lectures pour tous, L'Illustration. In 1925, he was part of the jury for the Gustave Doré Grand Prix competition, alongside George Auriol, Carlègle, Maxime Dethomas, Raymond Escholier, Abel Faivre, Raymond Renefer, Auguste Roubille, Clément Serveau and René.

Works
Mario Uchard, My Uncle Barbassou, illustration with Bernard Louis Borrione, Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1897 Alfred Capus, Who Loses Wins, woodcut drawings by Georges Lemoine, Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1900 (en) Barbey d'Aurevilly, Weird Women, frontispiece, drawings with Émile Mas and William Adolphe Lambrecht [engravings], Charles Carrington: Lutetian Bibliophile Society's, [1900].

Study of flagellation throughout the world, from a medical, historical and religious, domestic and marital point of view with a documentary account of flagellation in English schools and military prisons, Paris, Charles Carrington, 1901
Théodore Botrel, Chansons en sabots, George Ondet, 1902
Guy de Maupassant, Notre cœur, Complete illustrated works, woodcut by G. Lemoine, Paris, Ollendorf, 1902 Guy de Maupassant, Les Sœurs Rondoli, Complete illustrated works, woodcut by G. Lemoine, Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1904
Émile Zola, Le Rêve, 43 illustrations, Paris, Pierre Lafitte, 1910
René Boylesve, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, Paris, Romagnol, 1923
Pierre Loti, La troisième jeunesse de Madame Prune followed by Le mariage de Loti, co-illustrated with André Devambez, Alméry Lobel-Riche, Manuel Orazi and Raymond Woog, Paris, P. Lafitte, 1923
Abbé Prévost, History of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, Paris, Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927
Colette, The Vine Twizzles, 35 aquatints, Éditions Kra, 1930

Publications and advertisements
3rd National Defense Loan, 1917
National credit to facilitate the repair of damage caused by the war - Subscribe for the reconstruction of devastated regions, 1920
Color inserts for catalogs printed by Draeger

Public collections
Châteaudun, Museum of Fine Arts and Natural History: One evening, oil on canvas, 1901 (inv. M.81.16).