Playmates
Playmates c1903 by French Painter Emile Munier (1840 – 1895); Academic portraitist who was mentored by French Painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905).
This is an adorable portrait of a young girl of about the age five that is in her white sleeping gown sitting in a large arm chair, leaning against and resting her upper back and head on a large dark pillow.
The young irl is looking at one of her playmates a small white cat with brown accents on its head and back, that she is holding with her left hand that is positioned on a large white pillow that is pressed up against the curved arm of the chair.
At the same time with her right hand, se omearmet in swarte pup mei brune aksint bont dêr't se har holle op leunt en dêr't in lint omhinne is mei in klok.
Efter de stoel is in grutte reade borduerde drape mei gouden kwasten lâns de foarrâne en nei rjochts binne fjouwer grutte ruten mei in wyt borduerd gerdyn diagonaal oer har pleatst.
Op de earmstoel dêr't se op sit is in wyt borduere omslach en de stoel hat ek griene kwasten lâns de ûnderkant.
Njonken de stoel is in sydtafel mei in grutte beker en skûtel, mei in metalen leppel yn 'e beker dy't befettet wat liket op molke; en as lêste is d'r in dekorative tapyt op 'e flier dy't troch de keamer útwreidet.
Petite Fille et Chat is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
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Emile was born in Paris, France to Pierre François Munier; an artist upholsterer at the Nationale des Gobelins tapestry factory (yn Parys Frankryk) and Marie Louise Carpentier, a polisher in a cashmere cloth mill.
He also had two brothers François and Florimond; dat tegearre mei him dy't in perioade as keunstner oplieding en wurke oan de Nationale des Gobelins.
By it fabryk waard Emile oplaat ta tekener troch Abel Lucas, en soe in nauwe relaasje ûntwikkelje mei Abel en syn famylje, wat late ta dat Emile mei Lucas troude’ dochter Heriette yn 1861.
Spitigernôch yn 1867, seis wiken nei't syn frou har soan Emile Henri berne hie, hja krige swiere reuma, en stoar te betiid.
Yn 1871 Emile ferliet it tapijtfabryk om foltiids te skilderjen, likegoed as it jaan fan skilderlessen oan folwoeksenen trije nachten yn 'e wike.
Dan yn 1872 Emile troude mei Sargine Augrand, in studint fan Abel Lucas en freon fan Emile en Henriette; it pear krige ien dochter Marie-Louise, dy't berne yn 1874.
Yn 1884 he received a commission from Governor Leland Stanford of California and his wife Jane Stanford to create painting of their son Leland Stanford, Jr., who had passed away at the age of 15 jierren; ahd he titled the piece Angel Comforting His Grieving Mother; which the boy as angel that returned to earth to comfort his mother with his hand placed on her shoulder.
One of Emiles most influential teachers was the French Painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905), and one can see the influence he had on Emile in many of the pieces he created and over time the two became close friends as well.
One of his most famous works, that demonstrated this influence is his piece Trois Amis or Three Friends, that he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1885; that depicted a chubby little girl playing on her bed with her kitten and dog.
This work was so well liked by the public, that it was reproduced in many forms and was also used for publicity by the British soap company Pears Soap; dat waard oprjochte yn 1807, producing the worlds first transparent soap.
This painting helped establish him as one of the premier painters of young children and their pets; and he would continue to paint such scenes along with animal fishing scenes, seascapes, lânskippen, genre peasant scenes, mythological and religious subject matter throughout the early 1890s until his untimely death in 1895 yn de âldens fan 55.