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French painter and illustrator (–)

Elisabeth Sonrel ( Tours – Sceaux) was a French painter and illustrator in the Art Nouveau style. Her works included allegorical subjects, mysticism, symbolism, portraits, and landscapes.

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She was the daughter of Nicolas Stéphane Sonrel, a painter from Tours, and received her early training from him. For further study she went on to Paris as a student of Jules Lefebvre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

In she painted her diploma work, 'Pax et Labor', a work to be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.

From then on she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français between and , her signature pieces being large watercolors in a Pre-Raphaelite manner, which she adopted after a trip to Florence and Rome, discovering the Renaissance painters - some of her work having clear overtones of Botticelli. Her paintings were often inspired by Arthurian romance, Dante Alighieri's 'Divine Comedy' and 'La Vita Nuova', biblical themes, and Elisabeth Sonrel - Artvee CEJY