An Elegant Lady
An Elegant Lady by French Painter Emile Vernon (1872 – 1919); who specialized in painting watercolors, with his main subject being women and children in bright and colorful rural settings. He trained under William Bouguereau and Auguste Trouphème in the School of Fine Arts in Paris France.
This is a beautiful Victorian Portrait of a lavishly dressed elegant young lady that is sitting on a red leather cushioned bench at a table having tea while writing some correspondence in a restaurant.
The young lady is dressed with a very large pale green flop hat that has a very large slate blue fan feather with two large gold tone pins inserted into the hat on opposite ends of it.
The young blonde is wearing small round pearl earrings, gold ring with an embedded pearl and red gemstone on the fourth finger of her right hand, and a gold ring with green gemstone on her right pinkie finger.
On her right wrist is a gold chain link bracelet that has two gold coins hanging from it; as well as gold chain necklace with embedded red and green gemstones with a gold coin as a centerpiece with an embedded pearl.
She has a beautiful embroidered high neck white blouse, with a blue striped jacket with velour lapels and cuffs over it; that is accented with a yellow rose at the top center of the buttoned jacket.
Over the jacket is a white fox stole that goes over her left shoulder and upper left arm, and around her back and over her right forearm and drapes over her brown skirt.
She is holding a dip pen in her right hand between her index finger and thumb over blank white sheets of paper on the table near a decorative saucer with a teaspoon on it by a brown and green teapot and an open ink well, while her left elbow rest on the table as she holds a teacup filled with tea.
Behind her is a marble ledge that connects to the bench and a decorative square base that has a large column with a gold gilded base; and the ledge is part of an embedded flowerpot that contains a combination, white roses, red roses, and pink roses.
Beyond the flowerpot are two other marble columns that have gold gilded tops that are connected to arch supports, with a large pane window looking onto a garden.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available online as a rolled canvas print.
Info Below From Galerie Ary Jan
Émile Vernon was a student at the Fine Arts school in Tours where he won the first prize for drawing in 1888; afterwards he was then mentored by William Bouguereau and Auguste Truphème.
Then in 1898 he participated in the Tours exhibition of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts and later that year, in the French Artists Exhibition and regularly exhibited hie work there from 1898 to 1913; presenting portraits, landscapes, scenes from Brittany, still life bouquets that he painted in watercolor, as well as feminine figures, which later became is specialty.
Émile excelled in his paintings of softly lighted, adorable figures of children and elegant young women, with whom he often associated a pet such as a cat, dog or bird, and adorned his images with garlands or bouquets of flowers, throughout his career; but he was also a very versatile artist that could paint with rigor and power as in his works the portrait of Madame Vernon and Sous la Lampe (Under the lamp).
