Henri-Charles Angéniol (1870-1959)

(QR578) The antique paintings category offers a Beautiful Portrait of a Young Woman Reading, an oil painting on panel, from the mid-twentieth century. It is a portrait of a girl in a domestic setting, depicted in an intimate moment, elegantly dressed in pink, while reading a book or a "Letter" as written on the back of the painting as the title of the work, sitting at her desk. The painter uses warm colors that create a beautiful atmosphere of intimacy. The work is signed H. Angéniol lower left, a French painter from Lyon of portraits, landscape paintings, religious paintings, still lifes of flowers. French antiquity. Henri-Charles Angéniol (1870-1959) studied at the School of Fine Arts of both Lyon and Paris, taking lessons with the painter Tony Tollet and then later worked in the studio of the artist Gustave Moreau. He exhibited his paintings at the "Salon des Artistes Français" in Paris from 1904 to 1914. He exhibited his works continuously at the "Société lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts" from 1919-1959. In fact, the proposed painting has a label on the back where it says Société lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts, which shows that the painting participated in an art exhibition. Angéniol was praised by the press of the period for his ability to portray subjects in their intimate expressiveness, in moments of everyday life. His painting was defined as "intimiste painting". The work is dressed with a beautiful carved and lacquered wooden frame. The frame and oil painting are carefully and professionally restored. www.bisgart.com Restored Painting | French Origin | Twentieth Century | French Antiquity | Antique Paintings | Lyon School Bibliography: E. Bénézit. Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculptures Dessinateurs et Graveurs. *** Panel Size: 35 x 26 cm Size with frame: 48 x 40 cm Depth: 4 cm Weight: 1.5 kg