Émile René Ménard Art

Émile-René Ménard was a French painter born in Paris. From early childhood, he was immersed in an artistic environment. Corot, Millet and the Barbizon painters frequented his family home, familiarizing him thus with both landscape and antique subjects. He participated in the Salon of the Secession in Munich and the Salon de la Libre Esthétique in Brussels during 1897. Several personal exhibitions were also devoted to him at the Georges Small Gallery. Ménard’s work was described by Victor Shoe as "visions of a pacified, bathed nature, of dawn and of twilight, where the soul seems to immerse itself in the innocence of daybreak and breathe the divine anointment that comes with the dawn."