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Élise Bruyère (1776–1847) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral
still life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...
s. Bruyère was the daughter of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1836), a noted French writer, illustrator, and painter of French historical scenes. Her sister Henriette was also a painter. Bruyère was of the Realist school of French painting, she had studied with Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin and Jan Frans van Dael and her still lifes, particularly her paintings of flowers, are remarkably detailed. A typical work, ''Vase de fleurs'', is in the
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in Paris. File:Porträt des Charles Juste de Beauvau by Élise Bruyère (Versailles).jpg, ''Portrait of Charles Juste Beauvau'' by Élise Bruyère File:Portrait of Joseph Leopold Saget by Elise Bruyere.jpg, alt=, ''Portrait of Joseph Leopold Saget'', circa 1806 File:Élise Bruyère - Flowers.jpg, ''Flowers,''
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* Ferdinand Hoefer, '' Nouvelle Biographie Générale'', vol. 30, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1859, p. 63-4. * Théodore-Éloi Lebreton, ''Biographie Rouennaise'', Rouen: Le Brument, 1865, p. 207-8. * Noémi Noire Oursel, ''Nouvelle Biographie Normande'', Paris: Picard, 1886, p. 63. 1776 births 1847 deaths 18th-century French painters 19th-century French painters Sibling artists 18th-century French women painters 19th-century French women painters {{France-artist-stub