Élise Bruyère
French artist (1776–1847)
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Élise Bruyère (1776–1847) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes.
Élise Bruyère | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1776 |
| Died | 1847 (aged 70–71) |
| Known for | Painting |
Bruyère was the daughter of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (1738–1826),[1] a noted French writer, illustrator, and painter of French historical scenes. Her sister Henriette was also a painter. Bruyère was of the Realist school of French painting, she had studied with Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin and Jan Frans van Dael[2][3] 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.[4][5]
In 1795 she married the civil engineer Louis Bruyère.
- Portrait of Charles Juste Beauvau by Élise Bruyère
- Portrait of Joseph Leopold Saget, circa 1806
- Flowers, Louvre