A Tender Embrace
A Tender Embrace c1887 by French Painter Émile Munier (1840 – 1895); Academic portraitist who was mentored by French Painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905).
This is a heart warming and endearing mother and daughter retrat, that depicts a young mother seated in a cushioned green velvet chair, with a large decorative floral pillow supporting her back.
This is wearing a white dress with light blue stripes throughout, along with a white lace floral shawl that is wrapped around her arms and behind her back with a red hair comb placed at the top of her folded hair.
She has her young daughter with blonde hair that is wearing a white dress sitting on her lap, with her hands clapsed together resting her face on her mothers chest as she looks up towards with a smile on her face.
In the background there is a large green drape that is tied off to the left; that partially reveals an embossed orange gold wallpaper that has a vase and flower design on it.
A Tender Embrace is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a Impressió de tela enrotllada en línia.
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Emile va néixer a París, França a Pierre François Munier; artista tapisser a la fàbrica de tapissos Nationale des Gobelins (a París França) i Marie Louise Carpentier, una polidora en un molí de tela de caixmir.
També va tenir dos germans François i Florimond; que juntament amb ell que es va formar i va treballar com a artista durant un període a la Nationale des Gobelins.
A la fàbrica Emile va ser format com a dibuixant per Abel Lucas, i desenvoluparia una estreta relació amb Abel i la seva família, que va fer que Emile es casés amb Lucas’ la filla Heriette 1861.
Malauradament a 1867, sis setmanes després que la seva dona donés a llum el seu fill Emile Henri, va contreure un reumatisme sever, i va morir prematurament.
En 1871 Emile va deixar la fàbrica de tapissos per dedicar-se a la pintura a temps complet, a més d'oferir classes de pintura a adults tres nits a la setmana.
Després a dins 1872 Emile es va casar amb Sargine Augrand, alumne d'Abel Lucas i amic d'Emile i Henriette; la parella va tenir una filla, Marie-Louise, qui va néixer a 1874.
En 1884 va rebre un encàrrec del governador Leland Stanford de Califòrnia i la seva dona Jane Stanford per crear la pintura del seu fill Leland Stanford, Jr., que havia mort a l'edat de 15 anys; ahd va titular la peça Àngel consolant a la seva mare dol; que el nen com àngel que va tornar a la terra per consolar la seva mare amb la mà posada a l'espatlla.
Un dels professors més influents d'Emiles va ser el pintor francès William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905), and one can see the influence he had on Emile in many of the pieces he created and over time the two became close friends as well.
Una de les seves obres més famoses, that demonstrated this influence is his piece Trois Amis or Three Friends, that he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1885; that depicted a chubby little girl playing on her bed with her kitten and dog.
This work was so well liked by the public, that it was reproduced in many forms and was also used for publicity by the British soap company Pears Soap; que es va establir a 1807, producing the worlds first transparent soap.
This painting helped establish him as one of the premier painters of young children and their pets; and he would continue to paint such scenes along with animal fishing scenes, paisatges marins, paisatges, genre peasant scenes, mythological and religious subject matter throughout the early 1890s until his untimely death in 1895 a l'edat de 55.