Louis Deschamps "sleeping Beauty At The Hour Of Wilting"

Louis Deschamps. Oil on canvas "Sleeping Beauty at the Time of Fading" signed lower right Louis Deschamps. 50 X 75 cm. French school. Louis-Henri Deschamps (1846-1902) was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he followed the courses of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) in the 1870s. He exhibited at the Salon from 1873, first historical or genre paintings, then types and scenes of rustic life. From 1883, he pleaded in a series of paintings, the cause of seduced girls, abandoned children and the search for paternity, then put on the agenda by the Rivet bill; with his babies and peasant women, he painted numerous portraits and some religious paintings. His talent was original and bold, his palette luminous and soft; the faces of the simple and humble who were most often his models, live and think. The Museums of Avignon, Carcassonne, La Rochelle, Marseille, Montélimar (his hometown), Mulhouse and Paris (The Louvre), preserve some of his works (sources Bénézit: dictionary of painters and sculptors). Modern lacquered wooden frame. Good condition. 1500 euros