Alix Louise Enault Young Woman Reading In A Forest Oil On Canvas 1877

Alix Louise Enault (1846-1909)

Young woman reading in a forest

Oil on canvas, signature lower right and dated "Alix Enault 1877"
Mark of the canvas merchant on the back.
Good condition.

Dimensions:
With frame (missing): 60 x 48 cm
Canvas: 42.5 x 31.5 cm

She is a pupil of Ange Tissier, Florent Willems and Léon Bonnat. She exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1876 a painting entitled Invocation of the Bride. She was a member of the Salon des artistes français in 1885 and obtained an honorable mention there in 1887. Her genre scenes were highly appreciated by critics and several of her paintings were cited.