Élégant in the miror -O/C - 49 x 59 cm

Artist bio

René Lelong studied at the Académie Julian from 1879 to 18913.

He was awarded a 3rd class medal at the Salon des artistes français in 18954, of which he became a member in 1898.

He created advertising posters and illustrated many books and texts, notably in the Nelson collection or the magazines Femina, Je sais tout, Lectures pour tous, L'Illustration.

In 1925, he was part of the jury for the Gustave Doré Grand Prix competition, alongside George Auriol, Carlègle, Maxime Dethomas, Raymond Escholier, Abel Faivre, Raymond Renefer, Auguste Roubille, Clément Serveau and René.

Works Mario Uchard, My Uncle Barbassou, illustration with Bernard Louis Borrione, Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1897 Alfred Capus, Who Loses Wins, woodcut drawings by Georges Lemoine, Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1900 (en) Barbey d'Aurevilly, Weird Women, frontispiece, drawings with Émile Mas and William Adolphe Lambrecht [engravings?], Charles Carrington: Lutetian Bibliophile Society's, [1900].

Study of flagellation throughout the world, from a medical, historical and religious, domestic and marital point of view with a documentary account of flagellation in English schools and military prisons9, Paris, Charles Carrington, 1901 Théodore Botrel, Chansons en sabots, George Ondet, 1902 Guy de Maupassant, Notre cœur, Complete illustrated works, woodcut by G. Lemoine, Paris, Ollendorf, 1902 Guy de Maupassant, Les Sœurs Rondoli, Complete illustrated works, woodcut by G. Lemoine, Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1904 Émile Zola, Le Rêve, 43 illustrations, Paris, Pierre Lafitte, 1910 René Boylesve, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, Paris, Romagnol, 1923 Pierre Loti, La troisième jeunesse de Madame Prune followed by The Marriage of Loti, co-illustrated with André Devambez, Alméry Lobel-Riche, Manuel Orazi and Raymond Woog, Paris, P. Lafitte, 1923 Abbé Prévost, History of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, Paris, Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927 Colette, The Vine Twigs, 35 aquatints, Éditions Kra, 1930 Posters and advertisements 3rd National Defense Loan, 1917 National Credit to Facilitate the Repair of War Damage - Subscribe for the Reconstruction of Devastated Regions, 1920 Color inserts for catalogs printed by Draeger Public Collections Châteaudun, Museum of Fine Arts and Natural History: One Evening, oil on canvas, 1901 (inv. M.81.16).