Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 66 cm x 54 cm

Signed lower right : E.Salanson

Bouquet of flowers on entablature

SALANSON Eugenie Marie

(Albert (Somme) 15/12/1836- Saint-Pair-sur-Mer (Some) 23/07/1912)

Active in France and England in the nineteenth century.

Saint-Omer

Eugénie Salanson begins her training in Saint-Omer with her first teacher M. Crocher, from Calais.

Paris

She then moved to Paris. She cannot enter the École des beaux-arts reserved for men and follows the teaching of Leon Cogniet, then William Bouguereau to l’Julian Academy⁴. His master Léon Cogniet, of which she presented a portrait at the Salon de 1877 in Paris, exerts a visible influence on the many commissions executed for the bourgeoisie and high society. The imprint of his other illustrious master William Bouguereau is perceptible on the paintings of Italian peasant women, the fisherwomen of Saint-Pair-sur-Mer and Granville.

Eugénie Marie Salanson made her debut at the Salon de 1864.

Gold medal at the Montpellier and Rouen fairs (1874), Laval (1875), Amiens and Châteauroux (1882), Dijon (1885), Alencon (1898).

Silver medal in Laval (1874).

England

Bronze medal at the International Exhibition of Crystal Palace in London (1884).

A bourgeois life in Paris

Eugenie Salanson multiplies the exhibitions, major trade fairs across the country and abroad, she exhibits very regularly in Paris and on the strength of her success leads a bourgeois lifestyle there.

The Braun and Co House reproduces his paintings, and its success crosses borders. As for his master William Bouguereau, his works are sought after in England and across the Atlantic.

In the years 1880, Eugénie Salanson acquires the villa Saint-Joseph in the nascent seaside town of Saint-Pair near Granville. It is this region that inspires him many paintings with recurring themes of young fisherwomen of the country.. His painting At low tide (1890), is published in the book Women Painters of the World (1905).

In the middle of the years 1880, Eugénie Salanson settles in her last Parisian home in 117, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. This street is home to many artists' studios, William Bouguereau owns a mansion there, at this address she meets Camille Claudel who rents a workshop there, from 1882, with other women sculptors.

She also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1892.

She dies on 23 July 1912 in his villa in Saint-Pair-sur-Mer.

Sources : Benezit and wipikedia

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