Élise Bruyère
Élise Bruyère (1776–1847) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes. Bruyère was the daughter of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1826), a noted French writer, illustrator, and painter of French historical scenes. Her sister Henriette was also a painter.
Also recorded as Elise Bruyère · Elise Bruyere · Elise Lebarbier · E. Bruyère née L.Barbier
Élise Bruyère
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- Name
- Élise Bruyère
- Died
- 1847
- Field
- Painting
- Full name
- Élisabeth Henriette Nicole Le Barbier.
- Born
- 1776. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Teachers
- Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, Jan Frans van Dael and Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier.
- Languages
- French.
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Élise Bruyère (1776–1847) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes. Bruyère was the daughter of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1826), a noted French writer, illustrator, and painter of French historical scenes. Her sister Henriette was also a painter.
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Bruyère was of the Realist school of French painting, she had studied with Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin and Jan Frans van Dael and her still lifes, particularly her paintings of flowers, are remarkably detailed. A typical work, Vase de fleurs, is in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. In 1795 she married the civil engineer Louis Bruyère. • Illustration — Portrait of Charles Juste Beauvau by Élise Bruyère • Illustration — alt= Portrait of Joseph Leopold Saget, circa 1806 • Illustration — Flowers, Louvre
Training under Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, Jan Frans van Dael and Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Élise Bruyère is recorded in the collections of Palace of Versailles, Musée de l'Histoire de France, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes.
Portrait d'une dame élégante en robe blanche assise dans un paysage, tenant une rose, avec un chapeau de paille florentin à ses pieds
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Portrait of Louis Bruyère (1758-1831), the artist's husband
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• Name — Élise Bruyère • Died — 1847 • Field — Painting
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- 1.Archives de Paris La mère d'Élise meurt à Paris le (11 germinal an VIII), succession 1er bureau, 3e et 4e anciens arrondissements, vue 82 / 96
- 2.née Dominique Henriette Lebarbier à Paris le 4 août 1766, y décédée le 7 janvier 1850.
- 3.Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1863
- 4.anticstore
- 5.Bénézit B00028061
- 6.Rkd.nl
- 7.Cartelen.Louvre
- 8.Base Joconde
- 9.Séverine Sofio, 'Petite histoire de la féminisation de la peinture de fleurs', in Musée de la Vie romantique (Paris), Le Pouvoir des fleurs : Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), Paris, Paris Musées, 2017, 152 p. , p. 127
- 10.Vente aux enchères publiques après le décès de Mme Bruyère, artiste-peintre . de tableaux, albums, objets d'art et de curiosités, et meubles. Rolin. 1842.
- 11.Collection des tableaux. École des Ponts - ParisTech.
- 12.Fleurs et fruits. Centre national des arts plastiques.
- 13.Vase de fleurs. Louvre Collections.
- 14., page consultée le 9 mai 2024.
- 15.Parcours Femmes peintres. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. 2020-04-10.
- 16.Fleurs et raisins. Espace WebMuséo Musenor.
- 17., page consultée le 9 mai 2024.
- 18.Charles-Just, prince de Beauvau-Craon. Collections - Château de Versailles.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie générale, , Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1859, .
- Théodore-Éloi Lebreton, Biographie rouennaise, Rouen, Le Brument, 1865, .
- Noémi Noire Oursel, Nouvelle Biographie normande, Paris, Picard, 1886, .
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