A Young Woman of Leisure
אישה צעירה של פנאי c1885 מאת הצייר הבלגי פייר אוליבייה ג'וזף קומנס (1816 – 1889); היה אמן דיוקן רומנטי המתאר נשים צעירות מאירועים מיתולוגיים והרואים; as well as specializing in creating scenes of the life and times of the people of Pompeii, before the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
This a lovely דְיוֹקָן of a young lady with golden blonde hair that is reclining either on a long couch or a bed covered with satin cloth or sheets.
She is lying on her chest propped up by a giant embroidered pillow, with her head turned to the viewer with a slight smile on her face.
She is wearing a white garment and a gold bracelet on her left forearm that is positioned over her right forearm that is placed on the pillow.
זהו רפרודוקציה של אמנות דיגיטלית מחודשת של אמן ישן של תמונה ברשות הרבים הזמינה בתור א הדפס קנבס מגולגל באינטרנט.
המידע למטה נגזר Wikipedia.org
Pierre was born in Brussels, Belgium on June 28, 1816 to Josse-Joseph Coomans (1787 – 1868) the inspector of registration and estates, author of novels, poetry, and his wife Cécile Lesprit (1792 – 1871).
By the age of 16 Pierre was already am accomplished talented draftsman, and studied under the Neoclassical Belgian Painter Pieter van Hanselaere (1786 – 1862); exhibiting in Ghent at the first National Fine Arts Exhibition, with his piece “A Young Greek Shepherd”.
After exhibiting his first work he began studing at the Academy of Antwerp under the prominent Historical Romantic Belgian Painter Nicaise de Keyser (1813 – 1887) and Romantic Belgian Painter Gustave Wappers (1803 – 1874).
כשהוא היה 19, he created 52 engravings and historical titles for the book the History of Belgium, which was written by his older bother; and also authored the book Gzana, which is a novel based on Algerian history.
כשהוא היה 38 years of age he joined the military and served under General Aimable Pélissier (1794 – 1864) in the Crimean War (1853 – 1856) as a military painter; and during this time produced paints based on medieval historical events and portraits.
ב 1855 Pierre contracted Cholera, which forced him to leave the battlefields to recuperate from his illness; where upon he traveled to Constantinople, then Greece, and Italy.
ואז פנימה 1856 he moved to Naples with his second where he was exposed to the excavations in Pompeii, which inspired him to create genre paintings of antiquity in the Neo-Pompeian style.