Emile Vernon

Emile Vernon (1872-1920)

Paul Emile Vernon , born on March 14 , 1872 in Blois  and died in the same city on January 31 , 1920 , is a French painter .

Of modest social origin, Émile Vernon studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tours and received the first prize in drawing in 1888. Then he followed the teaching of William Bouguereau and Auguste Truphème at the school. Fine arts of Paris . In 1898, he participated in the Exhibition of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts in Tours and began at the Salon des Artistes français . He exhibited regularly until 1913, including portraits, landscapes and floral paintings.

He executed some murals like those of the Châtellerault theater in 1899. He excelled in watercolor paintings of women and children in bright colors and bucolic scenery, and also knows how to be more rigorous through the portrait of Madame Vernon, Under the Lamp .

Mobilized in the territorial infantry in 1915, Émile Vernon was reformed for medical reasons the following year and died prematurely in January 1920.