|
|
Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Paintings
Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel was a French painter born on 19 May 1839 in Broom, died Feb. 25, 1929 at Broom His life His parents were both Norman, from Broom, in the English Channel. His father was "laborer", ie landowner. Adolphe-Alexandre would have been raised in a wealthy family. In 1861, at the age of 22 years, Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel enters school of Fine Arts in the studio of painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, one of the most important artists of "pompiérisme" . At that time, history painting was a finality in the School of Fine Arts. It will also have the master Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. Lesrel remain faithful to throughout his academic life as a painter. By 1865, Lesrel exhibited a twin wire for many years at the shows in these two societies: Society of French Artists and National Society of Fine Arts. Throughout his career, Lesrel earned prices, official medals and awards. In 1872, he married Josephine Letang who was one of his models. Lesrel had two daughters, Martha Theresa (future Madame Heuzé) and Jeanne (future Madame Fontaine). Lesrel painted his two daughters on the same table, Alsace-Lorraine, now in the Museum of Avranches. In 1907, Lesrel left Paris for Broom, his hometown. He died there in 1929. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century realist painting was loved and appreciated by contemporaries. Lesrel worked full time firefighter art, very attached to tradition. It is in this context that Lesrel painted many genre scenes, historical inspiration. The Bénézit characterizes the "painter of history and genre scenes." Almost all the scenes take place indoors, the characters are costumed Louis XIII, and the scenery is there to complete the search for historical authenticity: Renaissance furniture or Louis XIII, the seventeenth century weapons, ornaments old His favorite characters ... are horsemen, musketeers, general, and women of the 17th. Everything is set up by the painter to reproduce as faithfully as possible the early seventeenth century. Lesrel focuses on making the most precise details: his style is very meticulous. The materials seem real, any accessory is reproduced in its strictest accuracy, the colors are rich and vibrant. The luxurious materials appear in all his works. We must mention his extraordinary virtuosity for rendering materials and textures, such as silver, glass, silk, satin, velvet, leather or wool ... Generally, Lesrel painted through his scenes inspired Louis XIII, the portrait of the Sponsor. We may compare the work of Lesrel of Dutch genre painting of the seventeenth century, as Meissonier. Experts agree that the work of Lesrel joined the Flemish masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, both by the richness of the colors by their "dough" (Roger Smith). Lesrel owes its success to finish, in particular, the precious lace, examined point by point it seems, to the extraordinary perfection of rich fabrics ... and the absolute strength of the composition. At Broom, he made a stained glass for church and table the White Knight who is the Town Hall. Outside his shop in Genêts Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License Artist Index ==--==--==
|
==++==++== |
