Émilie Pauline Caspers (1865–1946) - Flowers in an Imari vase

Émilie Pauline CASPERS
(Paris, 1865 – Paris, 1946)

Still life with a bouquet of flowers in an Imari vase

Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
Signed lower right
41 x 33 cm

Pauline Caspers was born in Paris on April 18, 1865, from the union of Henri Caspers, piano maker and music composer, and Marie Gouget des Fontaines.
Student of Louis Lemaire (1824-1910) and Eugénie Hautier (1822-1909), our young artist exhibited every year at the Paris Salon from 1890 as a member of the Society of French Artists. It is also present in the provinces at the Salons of Lyon, Le Havre, Rouen, Honfleur, Toulouse, Brest... The Galerie Georges Petit also exhibited it in 1899.
Her favorite subjects are botanical compositions of flowers, fruits and bouquets, in oil or gouache. She also produced, according to critics, some fine drawings, including genre scenes and portraits.
In 1885, she obtained her drawing teacher's certificate and opened her studio in the family home, rue de Plaisance, in Nogent-sur-Marne.
In 1930, the state acquired his large still life entitled “Hydrangeas” and deposited it with the prefecture of Lons-le-Saunier. Alongside his production of easel paintings, we also know of his large-scale decor activity. In 1896, Pauline Caspers offered her painting entitled “Blessing the Country” to the Sacré Cœur chapel of the Petites-Dalles church. She also created a large canvas for the Sacré-Cœur chapel in the right apse of the Saint Dominique church in Paris (fourteenth arrondissement). Later, at the age of 73, our artist created in 1938 the large mural which still decorates the choir of the church of the Chœur Eucharistique-de-Jésus in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris.
Pauline Caspers died unmarried in Paris on November 1, 1946, and was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.