Fille Aux Roses
Fille Aux Roses (Girl With Roses) by French Painter Emile Vernon (1872 – 1920); 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 and captivating late 19th century portrait of smiling a young lady that is standing a very lush garden, that is filled with trees that have an assortment of vibrant colorful flowers that are blooming from there branches.
The mix of colorful flowers, includes red, pink, blue, green, orange, violet and yellow; that beautiful complement the young lady that has a teal blue hairband, tied around her sandy blonde hair that matches a sheer teal blue scarf that flows from around the back of her neck down around her chest.
She is wearing a white off shoulder ruffled dress that has soft pink pastel colored straps holding it up over her shoulders that also form part of the upper sleeve of the dress, sort of like a thick band.
Across her chest she has pressed a large collection of pink, orange and off white roses, that she is holding in place with both of her hands; and there is also a large pastel pink tied ribbon hang from the center of the dress.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a rolled canvas print online.
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).
