Nude - Angèle DELASALLE (1867-1938)

This large canvas, in the spirit of Vuillard, was painted by Angèle Delasalle in 1936.

French painter, student of Benjamin Constant, Jean-Paul Laurens, she regularly exhibits in the Parisian Salons.
Numerous medals, scholarships, prizes... crown her work. Her works will also be, bought by the City of Paris, the state... and the critics will not cease to praise her.

- an honorable mention in 1895,
- a third medal in 1897, - a second medal in 1898
- a first medal in 1900.

One can read in the newspapers of the time "She has already obtained many awards and the last appreciation of Benjamin Constant the "new master" is not among the least, on the contrary".
From the portrait she made of Benjamin-Constant, bought by the State during Miss Delasalle's lifetime and hung in the Musée du Luxembourg, the painter would have said "That's how I understand myself (...) yes it's me and that's how I would like to pass on to posterity".

From 1903, she took part in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and was a founding member of the Salon d'Automne. Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1926.

Angèle Delasalle, loves the great masters and is inspired by them, just as she was inspired by the impressionists of her time.
She likes the light and dark, the vaporous atmospheres, to which she brings touches of luminosity.

Museums : BREME: Portrait of Benjamin-Constant - MONTPELLIER: View of Amsterdam - PARIS (Mus. Carnavalet): The Seine seen from the Pont Neuf - PARIS (Mus. du Petit Palais): The earthworker - Nude - PARIS (former Mus. du Luxembourg): Portrait of Benjamin-Constant.

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