Ernest Laurent Portrait Of A Young Girl

Ernest LAURENT 1859 - 1929 Portrait of a young girl portrait of Mademoiselle Yolande C... Signed and dated 1907 lower left Ernest LAURENT was influenced by the impressionists and became friends with Georges SEURAT and Henri LE SIDANER Heir to the impressionist technique, tempted by symbolism in its most intimate form Our portrait is one of the artist's most beautiful portraits which highlights femininity, whose fragility he associates with flowers and the mysteries of inner life. He puts an intimate poetry into the atmosphere which surrounds his models in their daily lives, in the garden, in the living room Our portrait appears in the catalogue of the retrospective exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie after her death under No. 115 Portrait of Miss C 1907 Superb impressionist portrait in the vein of RENOIR On its original canvas