Gaston De Monnecove Painting Portrait Of Elegant Belle Epoque Fashion Painting Late 19th Century

Gaston de Monnecove
Portrait d'une élégante un jour de printemps, oil on canvas, 1895
The seated woman wears a typical Belle Epoque outfit, a long black skirt matched to her mantelet, revealing a yellow blouse the same color as her headdress. She holds a bouquet of flowers in her hand, and a red clutch bag sits beside her.
A windmill stands out in the distance on the hillside.

Chassis by Hardy Alan, manufacturer in Paris, 36 rue du cherche-midi
BiographyMONNECOVE (Gaston Le Sergeant de), painter, born in St-Omer in 1836 and died in 1899.
A pupil of Giuseppe Palizzi, he took part in the Paris Salon, from 1865 to 1881, presenting landscapes. He was a member of the Société des peintres de vénerie, the Société des artistes français and the Société savante d'agriculture de Montreuil-sur-Mer, Boulogne and Saint-Omer (the society behind the creation of the Saint-Omer municipal museum). Mayor of Radinghem, he owned a château in this commune, which he had restored in 1883 by the architect Clovis Normand.
The Musée de St-Omer conserves one of his paintings: Étang en forêt (wild boar hunting scene), presented at the 1881 Salon.

Condition: canvas in good condition, painting overpainted

Oil on canvas 46*33 cms


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