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Leon Francois Comerre
1850-1934
French Academic Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Paul Delaroche, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Pierre-Auguste Cot, and Jean Leon Gerome
Education - École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Cause of Death - Old Age
Description and Analysis of Leon Francois Comerre Painting Style
Comerre paintings were
all about lighthearted
sensuality. His breathtaking
pictures, painted in a lucid
and glowing style, had an
extraordinary way of
revealing an air of
frivolity coupled with
deliberate eroticism.
He had an affinity
with nature, especially
its dramatic and ethereal
aspects. Primeval
intensity, blithe
elegance, and an
ethereal atmosphere
characterize his
opulent painting
style.
Description of Leon Francois Comerre's Academic Classicism Painting style
Followers of this movement were influenced by the high standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Academic Classicism attempted to merge both techniques to create the perfect style. It is characterized by adhering to a strict manner of painting, following narrow compositional rules and delicacy of color. The atmospheric effects are sumptuously luminescent. According to art historian, Walter Pater "To produce such effects at all requires all the resources of painting, with its power of indirect expression, of subordinate but significant detail, its atmosphere, its foregrounds and backgrounds."
Subject matter often used in Rococo art such historical and genre pictures was fashionable once again. This style favored interpretations of Greek, Roman and Renaissance themes. Imagery often centered around Biblical stories, Arthurian legends and mythology. According to Solomon Gessner, the great German painter and art historian, "By studying the works of Greek sculptors the painter can attain the sublimest conceptions of beauty, and learn what must be added to nature in order to give to the imitation dignity and propriety.
Famous Painters of Academic Classicists Movement
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1817-1900
Adolphe-William Bouguereau1825-1905
Charles Emile August Carolus-Duran, 1837-1917
Leon Francois Comerre, 1850-1916
Pierre-Auguste Cot 1837-1883
Thomas Couture, 1815-1879
Paul Delaroche 1797-1856
Eugene Fromentin, 1820-1876
Jean Leon Gerome, 1824-1904
Jean-Paul Laurens1838-1921
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, 1839-1929
Luc Olivier Merson, 1846-1920
Hans Makart, 1840 - 1884
Giulio Rosati, 1858-1917
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1805-1873
William Clarke Wontner, 1857-1930
Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1822-1896
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