Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942)

Artist Name Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942)
Title Woman with Flowers in Hair
Description An original oil painting attributed to circle of French artist Jacques Emile Blanche. This stunning oil painting portrait painted in the early 20th century circa 1910 depicts a seated woman in a pinky blue dress with pink and white flowers in her hair. The colours of her dress are also picked up in the background. She has a wistful look in her eyes. A beautiful portrait.
Provenance Provenance. Midlands estate            
Medium Oil on Canvas
Size 32 x 26 inches
Frame Framed in gallery frame in good condition 36 by 30 inches approx.
Condition Excellent condition
Biography Born in Paris, the son of a society neurologist, Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942) was a French painter of portraits and landscapes. He enjoyed fashionable success during his lifetime. From 1884 he visited England almost every year, where he regularly submitted work for exhibition. Blanche’s parents kept a house at Dieppe which was a centre for the town’s social scene, as was Blanche’s studio there at Le Bas Fort Blanc. In Dieppe in the mid-1880s Blanche encountered a cross-section of artists and cultural critics, including George Moore, Arthur Symons, Aubrey Beardsley and Charles Conder, as well as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Paul Helleu and André Gide. When he visited Dieppe in 1885 Walter Sickert visited Blanche, although it seems likely they had met for the first time earlier the same year in London. Blanche’s memoirs suggest this first meeting took place when he visited his friend, Mrs Edwin Edwards, who with her husband was on friendly terms with the painter Henri Fantin-Latour. Sickert had been dispatched there by Whistler to try to persuade Fantin-Latour to visit the American artist’s studio. It was in Blanche’s Dieppe house in 1885 that Sickert refreshed his acquaintance with Degas.
 
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