Adolphe Lalyre

La Danse des Sirènes

1909

Adolphe LA LYRE: born in Rouvres in the Meuse in 1850, died in Paris in 1935. French school. He was a student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he was first awarded in 1875. He started at the Salon de Paris in 1876 and was a member of the French Artists in 1880. He won two medals at the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900. At first, he exhibited paintings like “Sainte Cecile” (now at the museum of Chartres, Saint Genevieve and Saint Clotilde in Montauban) at the Salon des Compositions Religieuses, inspired from his learning at Puvis de Chavannes’ studio. He later received the teaching of HENNER, which helped him to clarify his feminine ideal. Then he became the painter of the “femme fatale”: sensual red-haired beauty, fashionable at the time. Main museums: Chartres, Montauban.