Émile Jean-Marie Brunet, The Reading Light

Émile Jean-Marie Brunet, The Reading LightA calm and reflective study of a young lady reading by French painter, mile Jean Marie Brunet (1869 1943). Shes wearing a prominent gold cross and its likely that shes holding the bible. Brunet has observed the light particularly well as it falls across her shoulder, catching her bonnet, and illuminating the pages. Perhaps this could be a symbolic reference to the Divine. mile Jean Marie Brunet was an accomplished painter that trained under the great

so maybe he was a keen huntsman or a gamekeeper for a large country house

Heavily varnished

The painting is signed/dated in the lower left and housed within a reeded giltwood frame with a decorative foliate border

inscribed on the reverse and housed within a good later foliate frame with pierced corners

as you can see here from his self-portrait in 1858

During the latter part of the 18th-century

1920Provenance: GermanyCondition: Recently cleaned and lightly restored

The painting is housed in a heavy wooden frame and signed in the lower left

Year of creation 1917

We particularly love the horizontal layers in the composition

Craquelure in areas which has caused the paper to crack

Miniatures by this artist rarely surface as most are held within private collections