Une beauté classique
UNE Beauté classique par le peintre français Léon Comerre (1850 – 1916) un peintre académique célèbre pour ses beaux portraits féminins ainsi que pour ses œuvres d'art sur le thème oriental.
A portrait of a beautiful blonde young lady wearing a gold laurel leaf crown on head with flowing golden blonde hair, wearing a rose dress and holding a reading book in her hands; standing in front of a distressed ancient golden tile wall.
Une beauté classique est une reproduction de maîtres anciens d'art numérique retouchée d'une image du domaine public.
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Comerre was born in Trélon, in the Département du Nord, the son of a schoolteacher. He moved to Lille with his family in 1853. From an early age he showed an interest in art and became a student of Alphonse Colas at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille, winning a gold medal in 1867.
De 1868 a grant from the Département du Nord allowed him to continue his studies in Paris at the famous École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel. There he came under the influence of orientalism.
Comerre first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1871 and went on to win prizes there in 1875 et 1881. Dans 1875, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his painting “L’Ange annonçant aux bergers la naissance du Christ” (The Angel announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds).
This led to a scholarship at the French Academy in Rome from January 1876 to December 1879. Dans 1885 he won a prize at the “Exposition Universelle” à Anvers. He also won prestigious art prizes in the USA (1876) and Australia (1881 et 1897). He became a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1903.
He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and in Glasgow at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.