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Eulalie Morin
Eulalie Morin, née Cornillaud (May 27, 1765 – June 3, 1837) was a French painter. Biography Morin was born in Nantes, France to Jacques Cornillaud and Eulalie Barbaux. She was trained as a painter in the studio of Guillaume Lethière (1760-1832) and may have also studied with Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1806). Morin is best known for her miniatures and portraits. Between 1798 and 1804, she exhibited work at the Paris Salon. Her ''Portrait of Juliette Récamier'', now located in the Musée national des châteaux de Palace of Versailles, Versailles et de Trianon, was exhibited 1799 Salon and included in the 1905 book ''Women Painters of the World''. A copy was owned by Madame de Staël and kept in her bedroom at Coppet Castle, in Switzerland.:File:Madame Récamier Morin.JPG, Copy of painting at Coppet Morin is thought to have taught art to the daughters of Elisa Bonaparte, Napoléon's younger sister. References 1765 births 1837 deaths Artists from Nantes 18th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
