La Brely Auguste, De (1838-1906)

LA BRELY Auguste, de (1838-1906)
Young lady on the writing Desk
Oil on canvas signed low right
Framed by Gault (Paris)
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 58 cm

LA BRELY Auguste, de (1838-1906)
French painter 19th century.
Born 1838 in Fuissé (Saône et Loire). Died 20th of April 1906 in Lyon.
Painter of genre scenes, portraits.
Pupil of Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) at the Ecole des beaux-Arts de Paris.
He took part at the Salon de Paris from 1863 to 1882, then Salon de Lyon and cities around. His portraits put emphasis on the finish of the matter and clothes as much as on the model psychology.
Muséeums :
- Paris (Musée Renan-Scheffer) « Victorien Sardou and his family »
- Tournus : « Young woman writing»
Bibliography :
- Gerald Schuur « les petits maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920, valeurs de demain » Ed de l’Amateur, paris 1982
- Dictionary of Artists E.Benezit vol VIII / 120