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Adelaïde Salles-Wagner
Adelaïde Salles-Wagner (1825–1890) (born Adelheid Wagner) was a German-born painter active in France. She was a pupil of Claude Jacquand in Lyon, and Joseph Bernhardt in Munich or Paris. She married the painter :fr:Jules Salles, Jules Salles from Nîmes, France, in 1865. She is known for portraits and genre works of children. Her work ''Breton Girl Praying'' was included in the book ''Women Painters of the World''. Her sister Elise Puyroche-Wagner also became a painter. Works in public collections * Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble: ''La Petite Villageoise'', 1853, oil on canvas * Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, musée des Beaux-Arts: ''Élie dans le désert'', oil on canvas * Le Puy-en-Velay, Musée Crozatier: ''Portrait de Monsieur le comte de Macheco'', oil on canvas * Narbonne, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire: ''Addio Teresa'', 1865, oil on canvas * Toulon, Musée d'Art: ''Sainte Madeleine bercée par les anges'', 1868, oil on canva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne), and the third-most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Saxony, Coswig, Radeberg, and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Dresden Basin, Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated, area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
