Angèle Delasalle

Mathilde Angèle Delasalle (25 February 1867 – c. 1941) was a French artist known for her painting and etching. Her works are held in the collections of many museums.

Exhibits Delasalle's first exhibition took place in 1888 with a portrait of a lady at the Société des Artistes Français.

Portrait of a young man, etching by Delasalle in 1908. Published in La Gazette des beaux-arts, 1912, vol. 2. Delasalle was a member of the “Societé Internationale de Peinture et Sculpture” and a founding member of the Société du Salon d'Automne. She received several exhibition medals, including one in 1897 for Return from the Hunt (Salon des Artistes Français) and a silver medal at the 1900 worlds fair, better known as the Paris Exposition. The travel grant was awarded to her by the “Conseil Supérieur des Beaux-Arts."

In 1926 Delasalle was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. or 1941. According to Graves,Benezit simply says it was post-1938; a number of other sources give 1939; the Departement des Arts Graphiques of the Louvre gives it as around 1941; Joconde, the catalogue of the collections of French museums prepared by the French ministry of culture, gives the date firmly as 1941.

Gallery

Selected works Delasalle's work was widely exhibited and awarded during her lifetime.

Paintings 1895: Cain and the daughters of Enoch 1897: Diana in repose 1898: Coming home from the hunt (Poitiers Town Hall, awarded a medal) (Exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1898) 1899: The Earthworker (Petit Palais) 1899: An Evening in Saint-Cloud (G. Petit Gallery in Paris) 1900: The forge (Museum in Rouen) 1901: The horse pond at Pont Saint-Cloud (Museum in Nantes) 1901 and 1902: Portraits of Benjamin Constant (Musée du Luxembourg and Kunsthalle Bremen) 1902: The roofer 1905: Portrait of the painter Jules Adler 1910: Woman at the toilet 1911: Girls bathing 1912: The Duke of Montpensier on the tiger hunt 1917: Left Bank Book Stalls (Paris) Notre Dame in background 1920: Women in the park 1927: View of the Arc de Triomphe

Etchings 1904: The forge 1908: Portrait of a young man 1909: Apse of Saint-Germain-L'Auxerrois 1909: Reclining female nude 1910: Allée de Meudon