Sweden - Nude Paintings

Water nymph, Siren or "nymph de eaux", oil on card board painted by Jacques Weismann (1878-1962). Signed J.WEISMANN, a tergo a black chalk drawing of a woman in front of a commode and signed J WEISMANN and dated 1917 (XVII) Paris and an adress: 11 Boulevard Pereire. Depicted in this painting, the Siren is illustrated as a nude, blue eyed and blond woman sitting on a rock, holding a sea shell by her ear. In the background a sailing boat is passing by in the sea along the shoreline. Jacques Auguste Weismann was a French painter, pastellist, illustrator and sculptor. He was a student of Fernand Cormon, Paul-Émile Boutigny and Ferdinand Humbert and from 1905, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, where he won the silver medal in 1923 and the gold medal in 1932. He was made a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1930. He presented his portraits, pastels and paintings in particular at the Salon des indépendants, the Salon d'automne, the Salon d'hiver, the Maison des Artistes at 152, Boulevard Haussmann in Paris and at the Galerie Simonson. Among his best-known works are the portraits of Marshal Foch painted in 1921, exhibited at the Palais du Luxembourg and that of General Gouraud. The adress 11 boulevard Pereire written a tergo which is in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, and where he lived for a long time. It is believed that in ancient Greece Sirens...