Jean-gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) Portrait Of A Young Girl, 20th Century

Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962) Framed painting under glass, "PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL WITH A UMBRELLA", Gouache on paper signed lower left. 20th century Size 46*38 cm and 70*58 cm with frame Joseph Charles Louis Jean Gabriel Domergue, born March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux and died November 16, 1962 in Paris, is a French painter and engraver. Jean-Gabriel Domergue is the second cousin of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. His brother, René Domergue, will become a short story writer, art critic, then editor at La Liberté and L'Écho de Paris. He is a student at the Montaigne high school in Bordeaux then at the Rollin high school in Paris. He is passionate about drawing and enters the Beaux-Arts de Paris where he is a student of Jules Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Adler, Ferdinand Humbert and François Flameng. After graduating from the Beaux-Arts, he worked in the studio of the master Rodolphe Julian alongside the future author Paul Briquet 2. He exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1906 and received an honorable mention in 1908, a 3rd class medal in 1912 and a gold medal in 1920, the year he was awarded hors-competition. He won a second Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1913. In 1938, he executed a composition featuring a naked young woman intended for the campaign for Rigaud's new perfume Féerie and that same year, he was also a member of the jury for the Miss France election, as in 1936. At that time, he lived at 10 avenue d'Iéna (1938 Tout Paris, Annuaire de la Société Parisienne, page 184)....