Émile Eisman-Semenowsky, born Emil Eismann (19 September 1853, St. Petersburg - 31 July 1918, Paris)[1] was a Russian-born, French-Polish painter, possibly Jewish, ancestry. He specialized in portraits of women; including many in the Orientalist style.[2]
Life and work
editThere 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.[3]
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.
Gallery
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An oriental beauty, 1883 -
Harem beauty, before 1911 -
After the Show, 1900 -
Young woman by a blossoming cherry tree, 1899 -
The Nun, 1900 -
Young Girl with Flowers in her Hair, 1900 -
Beauty unmasked, 1911 -
Tea time, 1900 -
Young beauty, 1887
References
edit- ^ Archives de Paris, acte de décès n°3296 dressé le 01/08/1918, vue 13 / 21
- ^ Lynne Thornton, La Femme dans la peinture orientaliste, ACR, 1993 Online @ Google Books
- ^ The Low Countries. Arts and Society in Flanders and The Netherlands, Yearbook, Vol. 16, Stichting Ons Erfdeel, Flemish-Netherlands Foundation, 2008. pg.229
External links
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Media related to Émile Eisman-Semenowsky at Wikimedia Commons