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Orientalist Nude Signed Suzanne Raphaelle Lagneau XIX

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"Orientalist Nude Signed Suzanne Raphaelle Lagneau XIX"
Full-length nude signed on the back, by Suzanne Raphäelle Lagneau XIX, whose colorimetric range reminds me of Bonnard in some intimate scenes -
A large bay window on the left very bright, the backlight emphasizing the harmonious shapes of the model, the studious atmosphere of the workshop during these living model sessions everything is harmony and warmth in this canvas with diaphanous tones -

Provenance: Atelier Fond Raphëlle Lagneau -

Sold as is, some minor gaps -

She was born in Paris (in 1890? ) of a mother belonging to the Opéra-Comique, herself the daughter of a music composer. We don't know anything about them. His father was a sculptor and has not fallen into total oblivion.

He appears as a sculptor in the Illustrated Catalog of the Salon of the Society of French Artists for the year 1890 where he exhibits a plaster bust of Madame JN which is unfortunately not reproduced there. His childhood takes place in the very green little town of Verrières-le-Buisson in the south of Paris, still known for its arboretum.

As at school she was already showing a disposition for drawing, her father decided to push her towards teaching. She followed this path in 1915, but the successes, due to her talent, made her exceed these initial ambitions.

She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where, naturally, she had been sent to "Father Humbert", as the professor was called. Her studio was the only one in which, at that time, female students were admitted.

The discovery of Orientalism She discovered, we do not know how, subjects taken from the great poems of India, mainly the Ramayana and the Baghavata Purana. She studies and illustrates these legends: “In the magnificence of lush decors and sumptuous coloring, she has treated, with a wealth of imagination and an unheard-of perfection of drawing, many scenes which have compelled attention, and, from 1914, it exhibited a decorative panel, which featured a Hindu Goddess ”.

In 1922, she sent an illustration of the Ramayana to the Salon, which then made it known to the general public and encouraged them to persevere in the Eastern way. We know of her a canvas exhibited at the Colonial Exhibition of French Artists the Birth of Lakmi (Lakshmi

) It is probably this reputation as a distinguished orientalist that attracted the attention of King Rama VI through the Siamese legation and that of Prince Mahidol visiting France.

The royal and princely visits At the beginning of 1923, she made a trip to Tunisia. Returning from this trip, she had one day, at her studio, the visit of the Minister of Siam in Paris, coming to purchase several paintings on behalf of the King her master.

Langlade describes the visit to us. “Mlle Lagneau was surprised to see this Minister enter, carrying in his hand with dignity a superb brass horn, as if it were the badge of his function or his rank. But this well polished and shimmering horn was, quite simply, an acoustic horn, because the Minister was extraordinarily deaf ”-

If the acquisition by Rama V of the Strike scene in Anzin or of the Procession of matelottes in Courgain was surprisingly, the purchase of work representing the ancient legends of centuries-old Asia was a consecration for the artist who interpreted them and the affirmation that these compositions were well conceived in the right spirit. Unfortunately, we do not know which paintings the Siamese sovereign acquired. Some time later his half-brother,

Prince Mahidol, also bought him six paintings, including two scenes from the Ramayana and four illustrations from the Tales of One Thousand and One Nights. The presence of Prince Mahidol in Paris allows us to locate this episode in the fall of 1923 -


Mademoiselle Lagneau will continue this career as an illustrator of orientalist books, Arab tales, Indian tales, Flaubert, Kipling ... and also Tartarin de Tarascon and the fables of Lafontaine while continuing to exhibit in numerous salons where she collects mentions and medals.

She also led a career as a teacher in the Schools of the city of Paris until 1945. She published in 1924 at destination of his pupils a technical and didactic work "Adaptation of the decoration to the form". The date of his death is uncertain (1950?).
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