Delphin Enjolras - Elegant ladies taking tea

Delphin Enjolras (1857 Coucouron –1945 Toulouse) was a French

academic painter Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie d ...

. Enjolras painted portraits, nudes, interiors, and used mostly

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s, oil, and

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s. He is best known for his intimate portraits of young women performing mundane activities such as reading or sewing, often illuminated by lamplight. Perhaps his most famous work is the "''Young Woman Reading by a Window''."

Biography

He was born in Coucouron,

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Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (7 January 1852 – 3 July 1929), was one of the leading French artists of the naturalist school. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father ...

. Enjolras painted mainly landscapes in his early career; later it became evident that his love was for painting women.ART / 4 / 2DAY: 13 May
artist biographies at www.safran-arts.com He changed genres, focusing mainly on the portraiture of elegant young women by either lamplight or black lighting. He would become an excellent painter of nudes, and many of his later works, such as "''La Sieste''" are of an erotic and sensual nature. From 1890 and onwards, Enjolras exhibited his works at the

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

, joining the

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in 1901. Also, the Musée du Puy and Musée d'Avignon both have collections of his works.

External links

Gallery at the Art Renewal Centre

Delphin Enjolras's Works of Art at Museum Syndicate

Enjolras works at Fine Art Photographic Library

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Enjolras, Delphin 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 1857 births 1945 deaths Academic art 19th-century French male artists