Charles Amable Lenoir, 1914, Portrait Of A Woman (207cm X 128cm)

Important portrait of elegant woman in purple dress. This canvas is signed Charles Amable Lenoir, and dated 1914. This artist was born in Châtelaillon in 1860, and died in Paris in 1926. In 1883, Charles Amable Lenoir joined the École Des Beaux-Arts, and became a pupil of William Bouguereau. He received from the hands of the latter the Legion of Honor, by decree of the Ministry of Public Instruction of July 1903. Charles Amable Lenoir is mainly famous for his portraits of women in the Art Nouveau period. The elegant one represented in this painting poses in a decoration of architecture and roses, with a landscape in the background. She stands at the top of a stone staircase, with its balustered banister. At the top right, a stone Medici vase is placed high up, with ivy on it. This elegant woman wears a pearl necklace around her neck, as well as four rings on her fingers, including an emerald and a "you and me". She also wears an iris hanging from her bodice, which matches her dress. This canvas is signed and dated lower right. This painting is in good condition, its canvas is original. Its frame of blackened wooden sticks is posterior. Dimensions with frame: 207cm x 128cm. Dimensions without frame: 202cm x 121cm.