Elisabeth Sonrel
Elisabeth Sonrel (* 1874 in Tours , † 1953 in Sceaux ) was a French painter of Art Nouveau (French Art Nouveau).
She was the daughter of a painter from Tours, Nicolas Stéphane Sonrel, who gave her her first painting lessons. Elisabeth Sonrel studied painting in Paris at the Académie Julian with Jules Lefebvre from 1891 .
In 1892 she wrote her thesis Pax et Labor , a work currently in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. From 1893 to 1941 she exhibited her works in the Salon des Artistes Français.
After visiting Florence and Rome , her works showed an influence of Italian Renaissance painting, particularly that of Sandro Botticelli .
At the Paris World Exposition in 1900 her painting was Le Sommeil de la Vierge (Dream of the Virgin) won a bronze medal. She also received the Henri Lehmann Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Many of her works appeared in print, mostly in the form of postcards.
From 1900 she visited Brittany more often . She painted several works in Le Faouët before moving into a villa in La Baule in the 1930s .
literature
- Gérald Schurr et Pierre Cabanne: Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la peinture, 1820–1920 . Editions de l'Amateur. Vol. II, pp. 422-423
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sonrel, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Art Nouveau painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1953 |
| Place of death | Sceaux |