Flowers Of Water
Flowers Of Water c1900 by French Painter Elisabeth Sonrel (1874 – 1953); and illustrator of the Art Nouveau style; who’s works included allegorical subjects, mysticism and symbolism, portraits and landscapes.
This is a wonderful art nouveau illustration of a young maiden with long red hair standing in a pond as she holds on to the branch of a tree gathering water lilies.
She is dress in a flowing tunic, that flows off her shoulders and has a water lily wrapped around her hair.
In the background of the illustration we can see man green tress and in the foreground are large leaves with orange flowers that have a purplish color at there centers.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available online as a impressão em tela enrolada.
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Elisabeth Sonrel (1874 Tours – 1953 Sceaux) was a French painter and illustrator in the Art Nouveau style. Her works included allegorical subjects, mysticism and symbolism, portraits and landscapes.
She was the daughter of Nicolas Stéphane Sonrel, a painter from Tours, and received her early training from him. For further study she went on to Paris as a student of Jules Lefebvre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Em 1892 she painted her diploma work, ‘Pax et Labor’, a work to be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. From then on she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1893 e 1941, her signature pieces being large watercolors in a Pre-Raphaelite manner, which she adopted after a trip to Florence and Rome, discovering the Renaissance painters – some of her work having clear overtones of Botticelli. Her paintings were often inspired by Arthurian romance, Dante Alighieri’s ‘Divine Comedy’ and ‘La Vita Nuova’, biblical themes, and medieval legends. Her mystical works include ‘Ames errantes’ (Salon of 1894) and ‘Les Esprits de l’abime’ (Salon of 1899) and ‘Jeune femme a la tapisserie’.
At the Exposition Universelle of 1900, the primary theme of which was Art Nouveau, her 1895 painting ‘Le Sommeil de la Vierge’ (Sleep of the Virgin), was awarded a bronze medal, and the Henri Lehmann prize of 3000 francs by L’académie des Beaux-Arts.[3] De 1900 onwards she confined her painting to portraits, scenic Brittany landscapes, and the occasional flower study.
She made regular painting trips to Brittany, inspired by the forest of Brocéliande, e de 1910 to various places on the coast such as Concarneau, Plougastel, Pont-l’Abbé and Loctudy, often staying at inns and accompanied by one or two students. She painted several works in Le Faouët before constructing a villa in La Baule in the 1930s. Working mainly in watercolour and gouache, she discovered a ready supply of models among young girls in the area, and found Bretons generally to be friendly, honest and self-confident.
Her final exhibit at the Salon was in 1941 com a idade de 67. There is also a record of her having exhibited at Liverpool. In her early years Sonrel produced posters, postcards and illustrations, in Art Nouveau style.