Nu Allongé
Nu Allongé by French Painter Delphin Enjolras (1857 – 1945); of the Academic Movement, who specialized in creating portraits, nudes and interior paintings using oil, watercolor and pastels. His preferred paintings was genre scenes of young women illuminated by lamplight.
This is a beautiful portrait nude of a redhead young woman laying down on a large cushion that is partially covered in red, white and pink roses that are connected to there stems.
The cushion is covered by a sheer white sheet that is also covering her left thigh, which she is laying on top of resting her head on a floral red pillow.
She seems to be within a large pool room, near a water filled pool that has a rose in the water, to the front of her and behind her is a large drape that is hanging off the wall by two large columns that are supported on a ledge that are in front of a patterned tiled blue wall; with a large blue vase placed on the opposite side that has roses in it.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a rolled canvas, acrylic, metal and wood prints online.
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Delphin was born in Coucouron, located in southern France to Casimir Enjolras and Delphine Laurens in 1857.
He studied watercolors under the French watercolorist Gaston Gérard at the “Ecole de Dessin de la Ville de Paris” or City of Paris Drawing School and he also studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904) at the Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts), and at the Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.
In the early part of Delphins painting career, he mainly painted landscapes; but would later transition in painting portraits of young women, which he excelled at.
His portraiture focused on beautiful and elegant young women, usually by lamp light doing mundane task such as reading or sewing; clothed or in nude; with many of his later works being of a sensual and erotic nature.
