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Léon François Comerre (1850 – 1916) The Ballerina's Dressing Room
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Léon François Comerre (1850 – 1916) The Ballerina's Dressing Room
Léon Comerre (1850-1916) "Pierrot jouant de la mandoline" ("Pierrot playing the mandolin") (1884) Oil on canvas Academicism
'Self Portrait' as painted by Léon François Comerre (1850 - 1916) who was an international prize winning painter, first winning a gold medal in France in 1867, then wining a prize in Rome in 1875, more prizes in France in 1881, in Antwerp in 1885, USA 1886, and Australia in 1881 and 1897, peaking with the French government making him a Knight of the Legion of Honour - the highest honour that his country, or the world, could garland him with - in 1903.
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Leon François Comerre (1850-1916), Moon.
A Classical Beauty
Artist: Léon Comerre (French, 1850–1916)
Leon Comerre.
"Jezabel comida por perros"
(1900)
THE DELUGE /c.1911/ by LÉON COMERRE
This is a painting of the biblical story of Noah's Ark and the Great Flood, which is described in the Book of Genesis. The focus falls more on Noah and his companions facing the cataclysmic event.
The composition is focused mainly on Noah's Ark, which is centrally placed among the waters. The ark is illustrated as a great and sturdy vessel, in a way that one could look at it and easily recognize its presence to symbolize salvation and hope amidst catastrophe.
There are figures aboard the ark, possibly Noah and his family, as well as figures struggling in the water, who symbolize those left behind in the floodwaters. This painting creates a very emotional scene of fear, desperation, and hope of the characters facing this catastrophic flood. Comerre caught the intensity expressed by the facial expressions and body language of the protagonists.
Corerre uses a color palette that ranges within rich and dark shades of blue, grey, and brown. These colors create an atmosphere of moodiness towards the catastrophic event portrayed. Light breaks through the storm clouds, illuminating parts of the ark and highlighting its significance.
It is an incredibly realistic painting, especially in terms of the ark, turbulent water, and dramatic sky, which have been paid extreme attention to. The extreme realism here gives a strong emotional and narrative force to the painting.
It's absolutely insane to me that the model who appeared in several Leon Comerre Orientalist paintings was probably French but just styled like a North African, because her features look extremely stereotypically Maghrebi to me.