Playmates
Playmates c1903 by French Painter Emile Munier (1840 – 1895); Akademískur portrettari sem var leiðbeinandi af franska málaranum 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, she is embracing a black puppy with brown accented fur that she is leaning her head on and which has a ribbon tied around it with a bell attached.
Behind the chair is a large red embroidered drape with gold tassels along its leading edge and to the right are four large pane windows with a white embroidered curtain diagonally placed across them.
On the arm chair she is sitting on is a white embroidered cover and the chair also has green tassels along its bottom edge.
Beside the chair is a side table that has a large cup and saucer, with a metal spoon in the cup that contains what looks like milk; and lastly there is a decorative carpet on the floor that extends throughout the room.
Petite Fille et Chat is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a strigaprentun á netinu.
Upplýsingar hér að neðan fengnar af Wikipedia.org
Emile fæddist í París, Frakklandi til Pierre François Munier; listamannsbólstrara við veggteppaverksmiðju Nationale des Gobelins (í París Frakklandi) og Marie Louise Carpentier, pússari í kasmírdúkaverksmiðju.
Hann átti einnig tvo bræður François og Florimond; that along with him who trained and worked as artist for a period at the Nationale des Gobelins.
At the factory Emile was trained as a draughtsman by Abel Lucas, and would develop a close relationship with Abel and his family, which led to Emile marrying Lucas’ daughter Heriette in 1861.
Sadly in 1867, six weeks after his wife gave birth to their son Emile Henri, she contracted severe rheumatism, and died prematurely.
Í 1871 Emile left the tapestry factory to pursue painting full time, as well as providing painting classes to adults three nights a week.
Síðan inn 1872 Emile married Sargine Augrand a student of Abel Lucas and friend of Emile and Henriette; the couple had one daughter Marie-Louise, who was born in 1874.
Í 1884 hann fékk umboð frá ríkisstjóra Leland Stanford í Kaliforníu og konu hans Jane Stanford til að búa til málverk af syni þeirra Leland Stanford, Jr., sem hafði látist á aldrinum 1 15 ár; ahd hann nefndi verkið Angel Comforting His Grieving Mother; sem drengurinn sem engill sem sneri aftur til jarðar til að hugga móður sína með hendinni á öxl hennar.
Einn af áhrifamestu kennurum Emiles var franski málarinn William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905), og maður getur séð áhrifin sem hann hafði á Emile í mörgum af verkunum sem hann bjó til og með tímanum urðu þeir tveir líka nánir vinir.
Eitt frægasta verk hans, sem sýndi þessi áhrif er verk hans Trois Amis eða Three Friends, sem hann sýndi á Salon í París í 1885; sem sýndi bústna litla stúlku að leika á rúminu sínu með kettlingnum sínum og hundinum.
Þetta verk var svo vel þegið af almenningi, að hún hafi verið endurgerð í mörgum myndum og einnig notuð til kynningar af breska sápufyrirtækinu Pears Soap; sem stofnað var í 1807, framleiðir heims fyrstu gagnsæju sápuna.
Þetta málverk hjálpaði honum að koma honum sem einn af fremstu málurum ungra barna og gæludýra þeirra; og hann myndi halda áfram að mála slík atriði ásamt dýraveiðisenum, sjávarmyndir, landslag, tegund bænda senur, goðafræðilegt og trúarlegt viðfangsefni snemma á níunda áratugnum þar til hann lést í ótímabærum dauða 1895 á aldrinum 55.