Gustave Lemaître "in The Lodge" French Late 19th Century - Academic School

A pretty pastel-colored depiction, like an artist in her dressing room, of a woman sitting in front of her mirror, holding a bouquet of roses. With her neck and shoulders exposed, in a slightly backward posture, she shows herself in a modest and provocative manner.

What emerges from this work by the painter Gustave Lemaître, is the delicacy of the line and the touch that knows how to model a luminous and velvety skin texture, inspired  by the nudes of his teachers : A Cabanel and W Bouguereau.

Gustave Lemaître is a French painter born in Marseille in 1860.
After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Marseille, he went to continue his studies in Paris with Alexandre Cabanel, William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.
He exhibited at the Salons des Artistes Français from 1888 and obtained a mention there in 1897.
He won the Marie Bashkirseff prize the same year.
He moved to Algiers where he exhibited at the Society of Algerian and Orientalist Artists until his death in 1920.

Oil on canvas with a small restoration, signed "G Lemaître" top right.
Size : 25,8 x 19,9 Inches without frame and 32,7 x 26,8 Inches with its Louis XV frame in gilded wood.