Gustave Lemaître «  Young Lady With Roses »

Magnificent representation in pastel colors, of a young woman seated in front of a mirror, a bouquet of roses in her hand. A woman in the same time modest and provocative. We find in this canvas of the 19th century all the delicacy of the design and the skin texture in the works of his pairs: Alexandre Cabanel or William Bouguereau.

Gustave Lemaître is a French painter born in Marseille in 1860.
After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Marseille, he went to study in Paris with Alexandre Cabanel, William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.
He exhibited at the salons of French Artists in 1888 and obtained a mention in 1897. He won the same year the Marie Bashkirseff prize.
He moved to Algéria where he exposed to the society of Algerian and Orientalist Artists until his death in 1920 in Alger.

 Oil on canvas in good condition, except a little restoration on the back and signed "G Lemaître" upright.
Size: 25,8 x 19,7 Inches 32 X 26 Inches with its golden frame Louis the 15th.