#léon riesener

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Léon Riesener.  Laure Riesener assise torse nu, tenant un livre, 1842-1846.

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Léon Riesener | Eugène Delacroix

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Louis Antoine Léon Riesener (French, 1808-1878) Portrait of a young woman, 19th century

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A challenge on Arftol, where you redraw a classic painting with your OC in it. Here we got Reht, still wearing green, but in a fancy shirt. Just a quick little thing, nothing special I chose the painting 'Portrait of Léon Riesener' by Eugène Delacroix (1835) as my model. Hope you enjoy!

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Landscape and clouds by Léon Riesener

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Léon Riesener (1808-1878).

French Romantic painter.

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Enchanted by the play of light and reflections which transformed the appearance of matter, Riesener began a new aesthetic that made him one of the precursors of impressionism. A passionate colourist, he researched all the nuances of colour and studied the techniques of ancient Greece and the Renaissance. Impressed by his research into colour, he turned towards Rubens, who for him was the Shakespeare of painting. Very early in his career Riesener studied tonal divisions, well before the physician Chevreul discovered their scientific basis. He put poetry into his painting by the play of shadow and he passionately admired nature, life and all the beauties they produced.

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He researched the subject of life in the countryside and, liking to paint reality, said he wanted to express "the heat of the day, the melancholy of the evening, meadows, flowers as they are in nature". His study of the elements caused him to paint a series of skies which varied according to the light and time of day – the subjects were ahead of their time and Riesener had to fight hard against the Salon juries and the Institut. Using pure colours, he excluded the blacks and whites which had been used for shadows and light before him. His material science of colour was the opposition which gave birth to contrasts from juxtaposed pigments. He did not portray faces by contours, but by shadows and modelling.

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Ten years older than Riesener, Delacroix was his first-cousin. He quickly recognised Riesener's talent and originality and he supported his early career by recommending him to civil servants he knew. From childhood, Riesener and Delacroix were friends and confidants. So different in life and character and so independent, they were preoccupied by the same artistic problems and enjoyed exchanging ideas.

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In 1839, he married the young middle-class Laure Peytouraud and they had three children.

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Famous works:

Liliums on the forest floor

Portrait of Madame Léon Riesener

Portrait of Théophile Gautier

Romantic young woman in a garden

The Little Shepherd

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Léon Riesener

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Detail

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Woman in riding costume by Louis Antoine Léon Riesener (1808-1878)

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Portrait of French painter Léon Riesener at age 27

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Léon Riesener.  Modèle féminin, nu, assis de trois-quarts, 1842-1846. 

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Léon Riesener (1808--1878), 1835 by Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798--1863)

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Mlle. Louise Riesener, Berthe Morisot , 1888, Cleveland Museum of Art: Drawings

This pastel portrays Morisot’s friend, the daughter of Léon Riesener, a Romantic painter and a first cousin of Eugène Delacroix. Here she pays homage to the pastel portraits of her friend and mentor Edouard Manet, who had used the medium with exquisite spontaneity in the years leading up to his death in 1883. She restricted herself to the limited palette of Manet’s pastels, using only black and white, with touches of pink at the mouth and blue to enliven the eye. Size: Sheet: 56 x 47 cm (22 1/16 x 18 1/2 in.); Framed: 75.3 x 66.2 x 4.5 cm (29 5/8 x 26 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.) Medium: charcoal and pastel

https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.41

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Léon Riesener      Erigone

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Léon RIESENER (1808-1878), Bacchus et Ariane, 1875,

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Léon Riesener, Eugène Delacroix

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Léon Riesener, 1835, Eugene Delacroix