Here we have a lady climbing into a, particularly
luxurious looking, transparent bath by French painter Fernand Lematte. Lematte studied at the l'école des Beaux-Arts
in Paris and in 1870 won the Prix de Rome, which enabled him to live and work
in Rome from 1871 until 1874.
A Dryad (1871)
In an artistically and commercially successful
career he painted historical and classical subjects as well as portraits and
religious paintings.
Odalisque with a monkey
He also did some orientalist works, both in the
travelogue style and in the more fantasy harem type, as here.
A bather
From later in his life we have this more
impressionist style al fresco bather. He
is a painter who is little known these days, despite his prize winning career
but he produced some delightful paintings.
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