Raymond Allègre (1857-1933) Young Girl In The Garden

Subtlety and light for this work by Provençal artist Raymond Allègre (1857-1933).
The work, signed lower right, is framed in a recent old-style frame (which suits it very well); it measures 56 cm by 37 cm and 45 by 26 cm without the frame.
It represents a young girl who seems to be dreaming and playing with a wand in a garden. A painting full of charm and poetry.

Painter of the landscapes of Provence, Raymond Allègre is also an orientalist painter. He is a student at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille. He is the friend of Jean-Baptiste Olive. He continued his artistic training at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the workshops of Jean-Paul Laurens, Antoine Vollon and Léon Bonnat. He painted landscapes of the Paris region and Normandy from 1875.
Raymond Allègre returns to Provence where he paints Martigues, Monaco and its surroundings. He exhibited at the Salon in Paris from 1880 to 1932. He won numerous prizes and the State bought paintings from him. He discovered Venice on the occasion of a trip he made in 1900 and fell in love with this city which inspired a large number of paintings. In 1900, he participated, with his Algiers and Cassis panels, in the decoration of the restaurant Le Train bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
He was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1903.
Works in Public Collections

    Bourg-en-Bresse, Brou museum: Entrance to the Village, oil on canvas
    Marseilles Museum of Fine Arts:
        Marseilles summer evening, 1891, oil on canvas
        Diana, oil on canvas
        Portrait of a man, oil on canvas
        Old man's head, oil on wood
    Marseilles, Cantini Museum:
        The Samaritan, oil on canvas
        Waiting, 1887, oil on wood
        The Gate of Aix, oil on canvas
        Portrait of Raoul Viola
    Paris, Gare de Lyon, golden room of Le Train bleu restaurant: Algiers and Cassis, 1900
    Rouen Fine Arts Museum: Les Martigues. Provence, around 1888, oil on canvas

French Artists Fair

    1883: Les Martigues seen from Jonquières, honorable mention
    1887: In Provence
    1927: Campo san Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Exhibitions and awards

    1885, Amiens, 27th exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Arts of the Somme: La Corniche in Marseille, La Montée de Gratte-Semelle (Provence)
    Raigecourt-Goyon Prize in 1893
    Paris, Universal Exhibition of 1900, bronze medal