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Provenance:
Galerie Léon
Gerard, 18 Rue Drouet, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Private Collection, Florida
 Delphin Enjolras was renowned as a portraitist of the upper echelons of society. He particularly favored depicting women in intimate settings, alone or
among friends, softly illuminated. Enjolras frequently used light to create
a glowing atmosphere, highlighting the figures' exposed skin and diaphanous drapery.
Delphin Enjolras was born on May 13, 1857 in the historic
town of Coucouron in the Ardèche.  His formal artistic training began in Paris
at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under the esteemed Salon painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Enjolras also studied with Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret and Gustave
Claude Etienne Courtois, and is recorded as having furthered his artistic
education at the Ecole de Dessin in Paris under Gaston Gérard. Having made his
debut at the Société des Artistes Français in 1889, he was elected a member in
1901 and continued to show works with the Société up until 1909.
Best known for his dazzling studies of young women
illuminated by lamp light or engaged in domestic activities, he also portrayed a
number of Orientalist subjects, genre scenes and society portraits. In addition, Enjolras painted city views and beautiful landscapes. From 1890, the
majority of his works exhibited at the Salon portrayed contemporary bourgeois settings, as in the present work.
Museum Collections:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Musee Crozatier, Musee
du Puy; Musee d'Avignon |
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