"THE GERMAN Adèle née Le Corbeiller (Born in Paris in 1807) - Pair of still lifes dated 1845."
Still life of fruits- Dated 1845.
Still life of flowers- Dated 1845.
Oils on canvas signed and dated at the bottom right.
Dimensions: 55 x 66 cm, with frame: 73 x 84 cm.  
 Adèle Hippolyte Lallemand is imbued with the Flemish heritage and plays with the codes of academic representation. The bouquets are expertly arranged and disturbed. The fruits and flowers are organized on the canvas so that the viewer's eye can grasp it in all its clarity.
The bright colors and the attention paid to their harmony are subordinated to the law of the artist's drawing. His gaze is precise, his hand solid, his brush of great finesse.
 
The artist's line of mind consists in animating the still life with flying insects. For the Italian Renaissance, the fly, the bee and the butterfly have a very strong symbolism. Placed on the lips or the face of a man, it represents the genius, placed on a flower, it represents his ephemeral condition and, by extension, the human condition of the spectator.
 
Adèle Hippolyte Lallemand is a French artist born in Paris. She lives and trains in the capital. Student of Belloc, she specializes in still life painting. She is dedicated to the accurate and faithful representation of the things of nature.
Seasonal flowers and fruits are painted in watercolor and oil on canvas. Apart from the floral art in which she excels, we know her some portraits of relatives ("The happy of the day, Portrait of Miss Eleanor N ...", 1845).
 
Lallemand exhibited regularly in Parisian salons from 1835 to 1870. His shipments, of quality, are always praised by the critics. "Is it painted on porcelain or on paper? ", asks A.H. Delaunay, editor-in-chief of the "Journal des Artistes", in 1846.
 
 Bibliography : 
. Bénézit, Elisabeth Hardouin Fugier, "The Still Life Painters in France".
. The titles of the works are given in "Explanation of the works of painting, architecture, engraving and lithography of living artists, exhibited at the royal museum, March 15, 1845", Paris, Vinchon, 1845