Flowers And Grapes By Gabrielle Gruyer-herbemont 1875-1973

Very pretty watercolor on paper measuring 75cm x 45cm plus frame 85cm x 55cm signed lower right Gabrielle GRUYER Gabrielle Gruyer-Herbemont, born May 25, 1875 in Paris and died June 30, 1973 (and not in 1921 as many pages on the internet indicate) in Île-aux-Moines, is a French painter. Louise Françoise Gabrielle Gruyer is the daughter of Pierre Philippe Gustave Gruyer, principal clerk at the Ministry of the Interior, and Claire Amélie Blondat. Her brother is the historian and art critic Paul Gruyer. A watercolorist, she is a student of the Académie des arts de la Fleur founded by Achille Cesbron with whom she studied, as well as Ernest Quost. She exhibited from 1901 and became a member of the Society of French Artists. In 1912, she married the medal engraver Auguste Albert Herbemont in Paris; the sculptors Marius Marioton and Max Blondat, the professor at the Conservatoire Maurice Emmanuel and the painter Achille Cesbron were witnesses at the wedding. In 1923, she won the second prize of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptors. In 1929, she received an honorable mention accompanied by the Marie-Bashkirtseff prize. She died on Île-aux-Moines at the age of 98.