Emile Eisman-Semenowsky

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Work by Emile Eisman-Semenowsky is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Amsterdam Museum and Manchester Art Gallery.

There are few documented sources concerning his life and education, although it is known that he emigrated at an early age and arrived in Paris in the 1880s, where he began doing sentimentalized portraits of upper class women, tailored to bourgeois tastes. He also worked as an assistant to the Belgian painter, Jan van Beers; serving as a witness in a case involving two critics who accused Van Beers of copying from photographs. In addition to portraits, he did some nudes and genre scenes. He often worked in Algeria, beginning in 1890; depicting women in traditional costume, as well as their daily dress. Many of his paintings are in private collections in the United States.

• Illustration — An oriental beauty, 1883 • Illustration — Harem beauty, before 1911 • Illustration — After the Show, 1900 • Illustration — Young woman by a blossoming cherry tree, 1899 • Illustration — The Nun, 1900 • Illustration — Young Girl with Flowers in her Hair, 1900 • Illustration — Beauty unmasked, 1911 • Illustration — Tea time, 1900 • Illustration — Young beauty, 1887

The authorities additionally record the headings Eisman Semenowsky, Eisman Emile Semenowsky, Émile Eisman-Semenowsky, Émile Eisman Semenowsky and Emil Eismann. His recorded language was French.

Emile Eisman-Semenowsky is recorded as painter and artist.